Hi, I thought I would convert my old PowerMac G4 into a Linux box / Asterisk server, but I haven't been having a lot of success. Call signaling seems to work fine - detects phones going on/off hook and phones ring when you dial them (from the console) but audio doesn't seem to be working at all - no dial tone, doesn't detect DTMF. The console (using OSS/dma_powermac) also doesn't work very well. I typed 'dial 600' into the console and the sound is very jumpy - 1 second sound, followed by 4 seconds silence. Processor is running at 90% idle. I have tested full-duplex OSS using audio tools and it seems to work perfectly. I am running a custom compiled 2.4.27 kernel on Debian/sarge and version zaptel 1.0.0-1 and asterisk 1.0.0-4. I had the same Zaptel hardware working in a borrowed x86 PC a few months ago... Cheers, nick.
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2004-Oct-16 06:56 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Zapata on PowerMac G4
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:06:24 +0100, Nicholas J Humfrey <njh@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:> I thought I would convert my old PowerMac G4 into a Linux box / > Asterisk server, but I haven't been having a lot of success. >[snip]> I am running a custom compiled 2.4.27 kernel on Debian/sarge and > version zaptel 1.0.0-1 and asterisk 1.0.0-4. > > I had the same Zaptel hardware working in a borrowed x86 PC a few > months ago...We are using Yellow Dog 3.0.1 with various versions of Asterisk and Zaptel on various Macs from vintage PM 9xxx to PM G4 and all works fine. However, I haven't tried Asterisk 1.0 on PPC yet because we've been experiencing far too many problems with 1.0 on Intel already. So you may want to go back a little and use a slightly older version of Asterisk first and if that still shows the same problems, you may want to consider YDL. rgds benjk -- Sunrise Telephone Systems, 9F Shibuya Daikyo Bldg., 1-13-5 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. NB: Spam filters in place. Messages unrelated to the * mailing lists may get trashed.
Hi Nick,> > I thought I would convert my old PowerMac G4 into a Linux box / > Asterisk server, but I haven't been having a lot of success. > > Call signaling seems to work fine - detects phones going on/off hook > and phones ring when you dial them (from the console) but audio doesn't > seem to be working at all - no dial tone, doesn't detect DTMF. > > The console (using OSS/dma_powermac) also doesn't work very well. I > typed 'dial 600' into the console and the sound is very jumpy - 1 > second sound, followed by 4 seconds silence. Processor is running at > 90% idle. I have tested full-duplex OSS using audio tools and it seems > to work perfectly. >I use a vintage PM9600 with Asterisk 1.0, four X100p, under YellowDog 3.0.1. I do not use the console at all so I can comment, but the rest of asterisk works 100% well, much better than on a cheap ASROCK motherboard with 2.0ghz AthlonXP processor. -- Nicol?s Gudi?o Buenos Aires - Argentina