GnomeMeeting
ohphone -- not a gui, but functional with a few tweaks (esp if
openh.323 gets updated to deal with Zaptel)
Jeremy McNamara
Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
> All the clients that I'm aware of for IP telephony have drawbacks.
> Some won't work at all.
>
> KPHONE -- Kphone works best for me, but Kphone doesn't have a dialpad
> to dial tones during the middle of the call, so the demo that * comes
> with can't be run. Kphone (3.1, the latest) also has a habit of
> crashing if you do something even mildly stressful, such as hang up
> while Kphone is trying to connect.
>
> LINPHONE -- Linphone does not work with ALSA, nor with ALSA's OSS
> emulation. I've used pre-packaged version of Linphone and compiled my
> own, using --enable-alsa to get it up and running. NOTE -- not all
> versions of ALSA let you do this! There's a silent failure to compile
> -- check config.log to make certain that the ASOUND_H is defined.
>
> GNOPHONE -- Gnophone also does not work with ALSA, although I haven't
> yet tried to compile it from a tarball/CVS. With ALSA version 0.9.4,
> GnoPhone won't even give me a chance to configure the sound card. IIRC
> GnoPhone did work with 0.9.2 and possibly 0.9.3.
>
> 1. I invite comments from people who can get these clients to work
> with ALSA 0.9.4. I am working with the latest CVS of ALSA.
>
> 2. Are there other open-source clients that I've missed?
>
> Regards,
> Moshe
>
> P.S. I've fiddled with the CVS versions only enough to get things to
> compile. E.g., in linphone, configure.in must be changed to find
> <alsa/asoundlib.h> instead of <sys/asoundlib.h>. Well, ok, I
did add
> -mfmath=sse to some of the Makefiles but that should be harmless
> enough...
>
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