Hello Gadi, > 1. If you can use skype or some other soft phone app instead of ekiga at > the moment, I would encourage you to do so. Ekiga makes use of gconf, > and right now, the way we have local apps implemented, applications that > use gconf that run locally may trample over the gconf settings at the > same time as server-side gconf apps. Also, I know skype works well.
I am working on my fedora testbed server now and installed a skype rpm that I found at their site, but once it was installed, it wanted me to setup a skype account. I can not do this for 100+ client workstations on my network when all I want to do is inter-network communication. My project is for a school environment where the client workstations will be populated with students. So I just want to be able to establish audio communication via local ip addresses. If I could just get the skype softphone and it connected via ip, then that would probably work okay. Do you have any idea where I can get just the softphone? Regards, Murrah Boswell > > 2. You should not have to add users or home directories to the chroot at > all. In fact, if you do, you may break things. When LOCAL_APPS is > enabled, the user's home directory is mounted on the client via sshfs, > and his/her user/group info is grabbed via ssh, as well, making the > client's environment match the server's environment. > > 3. I am unclear from your description as to whether in the end, ekiga is > actually running successfully as a local app (ie on the client) or if it > is running on the server and pushed back to the client. If you run > "ltsp-localapps xterm", you can get an xterm within your session that is > running on the client and use that to check the client setup. Try > running "alsamixer -c0" to see if it picks up the sound card. Also, try > using "amixer -c0" instead of simply "amixer", as the default soundcard > may be the virtual pulseaudio soundcard rather than the physical sound > card. > > As always, drop into #ltsp on IRC to see if you can get some real-time > debugging help. > > -Gadi > > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 17:55 -0700, murrah boswell wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am running a kubuntu 9.04 testbed with ltsp and have installed ekiga sip >> phone in the chrooted environment. My lts.conf has >> LOCAL_APPS=Yes and LOCALDEV=Yes. >> >> When I initially booted a client and started ekiga with ltsp-localapps, >> there were no audio devices available to ekiga except >> SILENT. That is, it could not see my sound card on the client machine (Dell >> Latitude C600). So then I logged into kde on the server >> as my client user and started ekiga. Here I could see my sound card and the >> alsa drivers and got ekiga setup properly for that user >> on the server. Then I chrooted into /opt/ltsp/i386 and added the user that I >> wanted to use on the client side. Then after exiting >> from the chrooted environment, I copied the /home directory structure for >> that user into /opt/ltsp/i386/home and rebuilt the image. >> Then when I connect the client and logged in as the test user and started >> ekiga, I could see the alsa drivers that allowed me to >> setup ekiga on the client. With this configuration, I could make calls to >> and from the server and the client. However, then ekiga >> session on the client dies after one or two calls. Especially if the call is >> initiated from the server side. >> >> This is a pain and a lot of work, especially since I need to have about 100 >> thin clients connected with ekiga. If anyone has any >> clues about how I can get ekiga to recognize the client sound card and stay >> active, I would appreciate that information. >> >> Another problem is that amixer can not see the maestro3 drivers on the C600, >> so it does not function. Any ideas about that? >> >> I am also running a fedora 10 testbed, and have not been able to get ekiga >> to function period on the client. Anybody ever tried this >> and gotten it working? >> >> Regards, >> Murrah Boswell >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >> This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, >> vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have >> the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize >> details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >> For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
