Hi, Le lundi 03 avril 2006 à 21:40 +0200, Dion van Oirschot a écrit : > Hi Damien, > > > 1. Mic Boost is not the issue here. The received sound from echo > service at the beginning (the nice lady explaining about echo service) > is as low in volume as the things I say afterwards. But the beep is > much louder. >
Then it is a volume issue on your side. > 2. I checked the nice-value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config; it is -10. I > have no idea if this is high or not. I am not that technically > experienced. > It is huge, it means that your X Server has all the priority over other processes, so Ekiga gets too low priority when there is activity. Use a sane value like 0 instead. > 3. The Avahi daemon not running has no significance to this problem > you say, but does that also mean I can ignore the error message? > Yes. > Thanks for your help so far! > > Greetings, > > Dion > > > Damien Sandras wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Le lundi 03 avril 2006 à 19:12 +0200, Dion van Oirschot a écrit : > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > > I have been testing Ekiga 2.0.1. today on a Debian Sid system. > > > > > > Having a big problem with sound. I tested it with the echo service. > > > These are my observations: > > > > > > - The beep you hear when connecting is loud and clear (so audio settings > > > are ok) > > > - After connecting to the echo service, the sound is ok, though a bit > > > low in volume (much lower than the beep) > > > > > > > Have you tried to enable "Mic BOOST" in your favorite mixer? > > > > > > > - After a short while the sound gets awfull. Cracking sound, almost not > > > possible to understand what is said. > > > - When I minimize the Ekiga window and maximize it again, sound gets ok > > > again. > > > - When I start another app while keeping connected to the echo service, > > > the sound gets awfull again, so I need to minimize/maximize the Ekiga > > > window again (sometimes a couple of times) to get 'normal sound' back. > > > > > > I am using ALSA and a Logitech USB headset. Working with the > > > Enlightenment 17 desktop, but same problem appears in IceWM. > > > > > > > Wouldn't you be using a distribution that gives all the priority to the > > X server so that other applications can not work in real time? > > > > See the "nice_value" in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config . > > > > > > > > > I ran Ekiga with option -d 1 and during startup I got this error message: > > > > > > 2006/04/03 19:10:27.477 0:02.488 ekiga AVAHI > > > Error initializing Avahi: %sDaemon not running > > > > > > I don't know if the sound problem relates to this Avahi daemon not > > > running. > > > Do I need to install some Avahi package in order for Ekiga to run > > > properly? > > > > > > > > > > It is not related. > > > > > > > Any help is very much appreciated, > > > > > > Dion > > > _______________________________________________ > > > GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ Ekiga Softphone: http://www.ekiga.org/ v_/_ FOSDEM 2006 : http://www.fosdem.org/ SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
