Hi, I agree with all of this...
Please note that the pulseaudio plugin is the default in the trunk version of Ekiga. Le mercredi 30 décembre 2009 à 22:15 +1300, Derek Smithies a écrit : > Hi, > Thanks for the answer, but it leaves me uncertain. > > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Julien Puydt wrote: > > > David Bowman a écrit : > >> The problem is that in the middle of calls to my partner he stops being > >> able to hear me. > > > Pulseaudio. > > If the cause of an audio problem is likely to be pulseaudio, what is the > user to do? > > Pulse audio is standard on all the major linux distros. > Doing a complete removal of pulseaudio from my ubuntu 9.10 box > will cause the entire ubuntu-desktop to be removed, breaking > quite a few apps. > > So - what are we asking users to do? > remove pulseaudio ? > surely not. > > write a new set of entries to their asound.conf? > a task only for the knowledgeable. > > switch to debian (or gentoo or.. ) and use alsa, not pulseaudio? > some linux users are experienced enough to achieve this. > > > There is a pulseaudio plugin in the ptlib SVN repository. Has the latest > version of this been tested? > > ================================================================ > > If pulseaudio is faulty - then we should be passing developer feedback to > the pulse community, and they fix it. > > if the pulseaudio plugin in the ptlib SVN repository is faulty - then we > fix it. So far, the reported bugs in that plugin have been fixed. > > We cannot tell people to use alsa. We have to make pulseaudio work with > Ekiga. > > ============================================= > > Every now and then I read that someone says, > "linux is ready for the desktop". > Fools. > the setup of sound on linux is so hard and convoluted that linux is not > ready for the desktop. > > If you think that sound on linux is ok, try the following test. > Plug a usb headset into your computer. > start watching a youtube video, or flash animation. > change a gui control to send sound to your headset. > > To achieve the above, if you had to write extra lines to your asound.conf > file, or modify the order of sound modules on your box with module > parameters, well, you showed that linux sound is hard&complicated, and not > ready for the newbie. > > Derek. > > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org/ v_/_ Be IP : http://www.beip.be/ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org/ SIP Phone : sip:[email protected]
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