Penedo wrote:
2. I use Skype to call overseas too but Skype requires me to seat in front of my computer to talk to people and we virtually never hear it when people call us (we have headsets both to keep the house quiter and to avoid feedback loops). (Skype is supposed to support having the ring on one card (to which we can connect loudspeakers) and another on the headphones but I have troubles to make things work with my on-board sound card).
For what it's worth, there's a proprietary Asterisk channel driver for Skype available from http://www.chanskype.com/ , and the voip-info.org guys have a bounty for an open equivalent. In theory, that'll let you call skype users from anything connected to your asterisk server. They've got a comprehensive list of assorted Skype gateways at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Skype+Gateways
In addition, I had problems getting skype to use a separate soundcard for the ringtone as well, but since upgrading to the 1.3 beta for Linux (which uses ALSA instead of OSS), this seems to be resolved.
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