Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Replying to Theo Band's post. Please don't use HTML mail... Was I sending in HTML? Years ago I was annoying management with replies that I could not read their Outlook HTML messages with my plain text mail program running on a SUN workstation. That battle is lost... I just set my mail client to send plain text mail to this list, although composed as HTML (my default). Never tried whether that actually works. Theo ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Darryl Dunkin wrote: It's not playing a wav file at all, it is mixing the live audio from all of the callers in that conference room and sending it back out to them. I understand. What I tried to say is that if a wav file can be played at the correct speed, why would a conference application need a special driver to achieve the same? I assume it is needed as part of the hardware driver and that this application happens to use the timing reference part of it. Theo ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:23:48PM +0200, Theo Band wrote: Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: In the zaptel source "make config" will install the zaptel init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d for many distros. Thanks. This was the missing configuration step. A manual start/stop seems to work. I will try to reboot the machine tomorrow for the "final" test but I feel this is going to work. Stopping the zaptel drivers does not work properly, but I only need this for rebooting... You don't. You don't need to unload the zaptel modules before rebooting. make config installs both a start and stop entry for me. /etc/init.d/zaptel stop unload the kernel modules. I don't see the point of trying to do that even if you switch runlevel. The error just looks ugly when rebooting, but it's not really an issue of course. [EMAIL PROTECTED] zaptel-1.4.1]# service zaptel stop Unloading zaptel hardware drivers: wcusb wctdm wcfxo wctdm24xxp wcte11xp wct1xxp wct4xxp tor2. Removing zaptel module: ERROR: Module zaptel is in use by ztdummy [FAILED] The unload_module function in the init.d script in the SVN should fix this and get rid of that error. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Theo, I'm glad my reply was helpful to you. The responses pointed out that it's time for me to update my procedures and documentation, so I'm benefiting as well. My thanks go out to everyone who participated in this thread. Thank you, Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketing Solutions Software Engineer and Systems Developer ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Replying to Theo Band's post. Please don't use HTML mail... Matthew J. Roth wrote: Theo, Unless things have changed significantly in the newer releases, you must load zaptel prior to loading ztdummy. Additionally, the zaptel devices are not created instantly, so after you load zaptel you must wait a few seconds before loading ztdummy. You can perform some sort of polling if you want to script this, but a less sophisticated method is just to sleep for 10 or 15 seconds between the calls to modprobe. If your goal is to start Asterisk automatically at boot, some init scripts for different distributions are available at http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.4/contrib/init.d/. I'm using Fedora, so I installed 'rc.redhat.asterisk' with chkconfig as follows: # install -m 755 ./rc.redhat.asterisk /etc/rc.d/init.d/asterisk # chkconfig --add asterisk # chkconfig --list asterisk asterisk0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off The make install already did that for me . Note that I made the following customizations to the script prior to installing it: * I don't want to run safe_asterisk, so I comment out all of the lines that reference the SAFE_ASTERISK variable. Not using safe_asterisk is a good idea. * I want to load ztdummy and raise the open file limit, so I add the following lines to the start() function immediately prior to the 'daemon' statement: modprobe zaptel /dev/null 2 /dev/null sleep 15 modprobe ztdummy /dev/null 2 /dev/null ztcfg /dev/null 2 /dev/null As you don't need ztcfg for ztdummy, the only line you need from the above four lines is: modprobe ztdummy Or use the zaptel init script. If it finds no zaptel timing source it modprobes ztdummy. ulimit -n 65536 /dev/null 2 /dev/null * And add the following lines to the stop() function, immediately after the 'RETVAL=$?' line: rmmod ztdummy /dev/null 2 /dev/null rmmod zaptel /dev/null 2 /dev/null With the latest zaptel init script, you can simply use it (once the modules unloading fixes are in place). But then aghain, there is no harm whatsoever from not unloading ztdummy at system shutdown. Yes it works indeed thanks. It turns out that (for me) the modprobe ztdummy alone works as well. I do get an error message as shown before, That's because of the bogus setting in /etc/modprobe.conf that runs ztcfg needlessly on the time of the load of ztdummy, and because uev is slightly slow in creating the zaptel devices (the init.d script only runs ztcfg after wait_fot_zapctl). but both ztummy and zaptel get loaded and Meetme() works. The 15 seconds delay would add to the boot time You can avoid all of that sleep (or at least most of it) easily. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Hi I run asterisk 1.4.2 with zaptel 1.4.1. Zaptel is only needed for the ztdummy driver to get the Meetme() application to work. I don't have any specific hardware. And it does work nicely. When I reboot the machine however I have to manually load the driver like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe ztdummy Notice: Configuration file is /etc/zaptel.conf line 0: Unable to open master device '/dev/zap/ctl' 1 error(s) detected FATAL: Error running install command for ztdummy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe -r ztdummy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe ztdummy Notice: Configuration file is /etc/zaptel.conf line 0: Unable to open master device '/dev/zap/ctl' 1 error(s) detected FATAL: Error running install command for ztdummy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe ztdummy So a simple load of the driver does not seem to be enough. I need to remove then wait and then load again. My modprobe.conf contains (amongst others) this line: install ztdummy /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ztdummy /sbin/ztcfg What is the proper way to get this driver loaded at startup? Have I missed a configuration somewhere? Thanks for any help, Theo ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Theo, Unless things have changed significantly in the newer releases, you must load zaptel prior to loading ztdummy. Additionally, the zaptel devices are not created instantly, so after you load zaptel you must wait a few seconds before loading ztdummy. You can perform some sort of polling if you want to script this, but a less sophisticated method is just to sleep for 10 or 15 seconds between the calls to modprobe. If your goal is to start Asterisk automatically at boot, some init scripts for different distributions are available at http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.4/contrib/init.d/. I'm using Fedora, so I installed 'rc.redhat.asterisk' with chkconfig as follows: # install -m 755 ./rc.redhat.asterisk /etc/rc.d/init.d/asterisk # chkconfig --add asterisk # chkconfig --list asterisk asterisk0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off Note that I made the following customizations to the script prior to installing it: * I don't want to run safe_asterisk, so I comment out all of the lines that reference the SAFE_ASTERISK variable. * I want to load ztdummy and raise the open file limit, so I add the following lines to the start() function immediately prior to the 'daemon' statement: modprobe zaptel /dev/null 2 /dev/null sleep 15 modprobe ztdummy /dev/null 2 /dev/null ztcfg /dev/null 2 /dev/null ulimit -n 65536 /dev/null 2 /dev/null * And add the following lines to the stop() function, immediately after the 'RETVAL=$?' line: rmmod ztdummy /dev/null 2 /dev/null rmmod zaptel /dev/null 2 /dev/null Things will differ depending on your distribution, but that should be enough to get you going in the right direction. Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketing Solutions Software Engineer and Systems Developer ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
In the zaptel source make config will install the zaptel init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d for many distros. Matthew J. Roth wrote: Theo, Unless things have changed significantly in the newer releases, you must load zaptel prior to loading ztdummy. Additionally, the zaptel devices are not created instantly, so after you load zaptel you must wait a few seconds before loading ztdummy. You can perform some sort of polling if you want to script this, but a less sophisticated method is just to sleep for 10 or 15 seconds between the calls to modprobe. If your goal is to start Asterisk automatically at boot, some init scripts for different distributions are available at http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.4/contrib/init.d/. I'm using Fedora, so I installed 'rc.redhat.asterisk' with chkconfig as follows: # install -m 755 ./rc.redhat.asterisk /etc/rc.d/init.d/asterisk # chkconfig --add asterisk # chkconfig --list asterisk asterisk0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off Note that I made the following customizations to the script prior to installing it: * I don't want to run safe_asterisk, so I comment out all of the lines that reference the SAFE_ASTERISK variable. * I want to load ztdummy and raise the open file limit, so I add the following lines to the start() function immediately prior to the 'daemon' statement: modprobe zaptel /dev/null 2 /dev/null sleep 15 modprobe ztdummy /dev/null 2 /dev/null ztcfg /dev/null 2 /dev/null ulimit -n 65536 /dev/null 2 /dev/null * And add the following lines to the stop() function, immediately after the 'RETVAL=$?' line: rmmod ztdummy /dev/null 2 /dev/null rmmod zaptel /dev/null 2 /dev/null Things will differ depending on your distribution, but that should be enough to get you going in the right direction. Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketing Solutions Software Engineer and Systems Developer ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:28:51PM +0200, Theo Band wrote: Hi I run asterisk 1.4.2 with zaptel 1.4.1. Zaptel is only needed for the ztdummy driver to get the Meetme() application to work. I don't have any specific hardware. And it does work nicely. When I reboot the machine however I have to manually load the driver like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe ztdummy Notice: Configuration file is /etc/zaptel.conf line 0: Unable to open master device '/dev/zap/ctl' 1 error(s) detected The error message is meaningless for ztdummy. Please test if you have a working timing source with: zttest -v To get rid of this error, remove the line that runs an automatic ztcfg at the load of ztdummy: sed -i '/ztdummy/d' -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Matthew J. Roth wrote: Theo, Unless things have changed significantly in the newer releases, you must load zaptel prior to loading ztdummy. Additionally, the zaptel devices are not created instantly, so after you load zaptel you must wait a few seconds before loading ztdummy. You can perform some sort of polling if you want to script this, but a less sophisticated method is just to sleep for 10 or 15 seconds between the calls to modprobe. If your goal is to start Asterisk automatically at boot, some init scripts for different distributions are available at http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.4/contrib/init.d/. I'm using Fedora, so I installed 'rc.redhat.asterisk' with chkconfig as follows: # install -m 755 ./rc.redhat.asterisk /etc/rc.d/init.d/asterisk # chkconfig --add asterisk # chkconfig --list asterisk asterisk0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off The make install already did that for me . Note that I made the following customizations to the script prior to installing it: * I don't want to run safe_asterisk, so I comment out all of the lines that reference the SAFE_ASTERISK variable. * I want to load ztdummy and raise the open file limit, so I add the following lines to the start() function immediately prior to the 'daemon' statement: modprobe zaptel /dev/null 2 /dev/null sleep 15 modprobe ztdummy /dev/null 2 /dev/null ztcfg /dev/null 2 /dev/null ulimit -n 65536 /dev/null 2 /dev/null * And add the following lines to the stop() function, immediately after the 'RETVAL=$?' line: rmmod ztdummy /dev/null 2 /dev/null rmmod zaptel /dev/null 2 /dev/null Yes it works indeed thanks. It turns out that (for me) the modprobe ztdummy alone works as well. I do get an error message as shown before, but both ztummy and zaptel get loaded and Meetme() works. The 15 seconds delay would add to the boot time I also tried the suggestion of Eric Wieling. Appearantly make config is what I had not done. This creates the needed module load scripts. The module remove scripts do not work properly, but who cares if the machine is going down anyway? Things will differ depending on your distribution, but that should be enough to get you going in the right direction. Yep it did :-) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: In the zaptel source make config will install the zaptel init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d for many distros. Thanks. This was the missing configuration step. A manual start/stop seems to work. I will try to reboot the machine tomorrow for the final test but I feel this is going to work. Stopping the zaptel drivers does not work properly, but I only need this for rebooting... [EMAIL PROTECTED] zaptel-1.4.1]# service zaptel stop Unloading zaptel hardware drivers: wcusb wctdm wcfxo wctdm24xxp wcte11xp wct1xxp wct4xxp tor2. Removing zaptel module: ERROR: Module zaptel is in use by ztdummy [FAILED] Cheers, Theo ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:28:51PM +0200, Theo Band wrote: Hi I run asterisk 1.4.2 with zaptel 1.4.1. Zaptel is only needed for the ztdummy driver to get the Meetme() application to work. I don't have any specific hardware. And it does work nicely. When I reboot the machine however I have to manually load the driver like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe ztdummy Notice: Configuration file is /etc/zaptel.conf line 0: Unable to open master device '/dev/zap/ctl' 1 error(s) detected The error message is meaningless for ztdummy. Please test if you have a working timing source with: zttest -v --- Results after 28 passes --- Best: 98.156738 -- Worst: 97.900391 -- Average: 98.024205 2% too slow? Doesn't look very accurate for a timing reference. On the other end Meetme() work like a charm. To get rid of this error, remove the line that runs an automatic ztcfg at the load of ztdummy: sed -i '/ztdummy/d' Or add /dev/null Why would one application need a special driver? What so different about the Meetme() application? Playing a wav file doesn't need a special timing source for instance. But, I'm just a simple end user of course, not understanding all the complex details of a PBX :-) Theo ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
It's not playing a wav file at all, it is mixing the live audio from all of the callers in that conference room and sending it back out to them. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Theo Band Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 13:36 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup Or add /dev/null Why would one application need a special driver? What so different about the Meetme() application? Playing a wav file doesn't need a special timing source for instance. But, I'm just a simple end user of course, not understanding all the complex details of a PBX :-) Theo ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:45:10PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:28:51PM +0200, Theo Band wrote: Hi I run asterisk 1.4.2 with zaptel 1.4.1. Zaptel is only needed for the ztdummy driver to get the Meetme() application to work. I don't have any specific hardware. And it does work nicely. When I reboot the machine however I have to manually load the driver like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe ztdummy Notice: Configuration file is /etc/zaptel.conf line 0: Unable to open master device '/dev/zap/ctl' 1 error(s) detected The error message is meaningless for ztdummy. Please test if you have a working timing source with: zttest -v To get rid of this error, remove the line that runs an automatic ztcfg at the load of ztdummy: sed -i '/ztdummy/d' Sorry, my typo here: On redhats: sed -i '/ztdummy/d' /etc/modprobe.conf On Debians and probably most others: sed -i '/ztdummy/d' /etc/modprobe.d/zaptel Basically: delete the line that runs 'ztcfg' automatically after the modprobe of ztdummy. While for real hardware modules there is some point in rnning this (and I still wouldn't recommend it), for zaptel, ztdynamic, ztdummy and xpp_usb this is totally pointless and has indeed been removed in the SVN versions. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] ztdummy does not load properly at server startup
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:23:48PM +0200, Theo Band wrote: Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: In the zaptel source make config will install the zaptel init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d for many distros. Thanks. This was the missing configuration step. A manual start/stop seems to work. I will try to reboot the machine tomorrow for the final test but I feel this is going to work. Stopping the zaptel drivers does not work properly, but I only need this for rebooting... You don't. You don't need to unload the zaptel modules before rebooting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] zaptel-1.4.1]# service zaptel stop Unloading zaptel hardware drivers: wcusb wctdm wcfxo wctdm24xxp wcte11xp wct1xxp wct4xxp tor2. Removing zaptel module: ERROR: Module zaptel is in use by ztdummy [FAILED] The unload_module function in the init.d script in the SVN should fix this and get rid of that error. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
