I had the same problem and solved it this way: Open the Ekiga preferences dialog. Under Audio/Devices I had my USB web-cam selected instead of "Default (PTLIB/ALSA)".
So in other words it was not a real bug at all, at least not for me. cheers. -- Unable to open audio device , only silence is transmitted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
