Re: [Linphone-users] One way sound on RedHat 9, SB Live + feature requests

[Simon MORLAT]

Hello,

Concerning your sound problem, the first thing you have to check is: are 
you able to record some sound with your microphone using some 
tape-recorder program, like gnome-record, or some command line tools 
like rec ?
If no you'll have to find why, so take a mixer and play.
If yes so it's probably because your driver does support well full 
duplex mode, so you will need to upgrade to alsa-drivers. (it 's not so 
difficult !)
Concerning your suggestions:
1/ is easy, I'll make it as soon as possible (the cvs server is down at 
the moment I can't work!)
2/ can be done in a reasonnable time. This is a planned feature but it 
was not on my priority list, but as you request it, I'll try to make it.
3/ I think this is not the way a sip-phone should work, so I will not 
add this feature (but someone  else can do it !)
Thanks very much for those feedbacks
Simon


Tom Poindexter wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> Thanks for Linphone - it looks to be a nice piece of work, except that I
> can only receive audio, not send.  My system is RedHat 9, with a
> Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08), and I use the stock (OSS-based)
> drivers:
>
> Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P  
> emu10k1                69064   1 (autoclean)
> ac97_codec             14600   0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
> sound                  74228   0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
> soundcore               6436   7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]
>
> I've tried both 'mic' and 'line' inputs, and neither allow me to send audio.
> Any help is appreciated.  I'd rather not have to install the ALSA drivers - 
> I'm looking for a nice soft-phone for a group of people on RedHat 8 and 9,
> and upgrading everyone would be a big hassle.  I took a cursory look at 
> the sound api's in mediastreamer/*, and don't see and glaring problems.  
> I'll dig some more.
>
> There are a few things I would suggest as additions to your feature list,
> some are relatively easy.  
>
> 1. Alpha labels on the dialpad: 2-'abc', 3-'def', 4-'ghi' etc.   'q' on 7 and
>   'z' on 9.  Some voice services I would want to connect with requires
>   entering names via the 'alpha' chacters on the dialpad.   
>
> 2. DTMF feedback - it would be nice to have an option of hearing DTMF tones
>   as pressed on the dialpad.  A checkbox of enabling feedback would be nice.
>
> 3. Asterisk mode - I'm trying to use linphone with Asterisk, I will assume you
>   are familiar with it  (www.asterisk.org).  It would be nice from linphone
>   to enable an 'asterisk' mode that allows dialing by pressing some DTMF
>   digits, then press 'Call'.  For example, if I wish to dial extension '1234'
>   on the asterisk server, the sip url would be translated to 
>   'sip:address@hidden'   A config entry would allow me to
>   name the Asterisk server.  With 'asterisk mode' enabled, the dialpad 
>   should be displayed by default.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tom 
>