asterisk users - Jun 2003 - Working Clients for Linux?

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...


-- 
  Moshe Yudkowsky * http://www.Disaggregate.com

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...
>
>