Ekiga - no sound in or out
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I am not sure, if the problem is related to some connection problem, or to the soundserver and sound setup in general.
Every other application has no problems with sound whatsoever. But when I try to call the Echo service in Ekiga, I get silence. The connection is established, the timer runs and I see the name of the codec used for the conversation, but in absolute silence. No sound gets recorded through the mic either. Same PC, same router settings, however running Fedora works just fine.
Both Fedora and Trisquel have no firewall enabled, both run with ALSA + Pulseaudio.
I've tried to change the output and input device in Ekiga from "Default (PTLIB/ALSA)" to any of the available options, but with no luck.
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I have tried out a Trisquel 4.01 live cd and it's having a similar issue. Ekiga cannot connect to my ekiga.net account. It looks like this is related to trisquel itself, since Fedora works just fine with it.
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I wonder if it has to do with our Libre kernel?
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This never came to my mind, Ekiga is in the repositories, licensed under GPL2 and is advertised with "free your speech". I simply assumed their sip accounts would not require anything that's not going well with a libre kernel.
I don't think sip in general requires some non-free blobs in the kernel, after all it's just a communication protocol, right? I'll check this out immediately by making a random sip account and trying it out with Ekiga and/or something else.
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Perhaps you should see if the problem persists in the 4.5 beta?
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Ekiga is mentioned as a Skype alternative at fsf.org. Don't know if that means something though. I'll definitely see about the 4.5 beta, because this bullshit pisses me off to no end and I want just to find out what went wrong there, if it was a bug, a general problem with Ekiga being not-so-very-free or just a misconfiguration on my side.
At this point I start to understand, SIP is not the only protocol that would allow PC2PC calls. Jabber seems to be able to do the trick as well... Why do I find out about simple and easy solutions only when its too late? In the end I'll probably just stick with Jabber even if I'll get an SIP program working, since this whole Ekiga/SIP-thing annoyed me so much.
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The beta solves the issue. I can call the echo test service, have sound output and here my voice from the mic. Ekiga seems not to have a problem with libre-kernels in general, but only with Taranis in particular.
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I'm glad to know it works in the latest version. :)
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The latest version rocks anyway, since it works with my scanner out of the box. Simple-scan has problems seeing my scanner on Taranis, but in Slaine all is well from the start :)
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