Just wondering whether anybody uses VoIP with Ubuntu.
Tried Linphone and SFLphone and didn’t get very far: with Linphone my microphone input is not recognized and SFLphone is only half done, has no addressbook and behaves in an odd manner (for example, it does not register my ID after i check the preferences, until i restart it). Twinkle seems more promising, but my microphone is not working there, either, and i haven’t found any check or settings for the microphone, either.
Background: Dual-boot Acer Aspire .
On Windows i have been using X-Lite until recently, when the OS finally got corrupted beyond repair - am getting the blue screen of death now, even in safe mode. X-Lite also has settings for speaker and microphone levels, but i haven’t found a Ubuntu version. Am about ready to give up on having a computer at home altogether and just use netcafes and machines at the university.
Hi,
I’m using Ekiga on my Debian system, with my 1e/month offer from OVH (Great deal !) for an illimited communication in 40 countries (Even including TW. They do have limitation, but only to avoid people doing business with that)
Anyway Ekiga works great and you don’t need to have an ekiga account. I’m just using it as SIP client.
(It’s a good alternative to Skype as well)
The quality is good and everything is working well.
[quote=“dudumomo”]Hi,
I’m using Ekiga on my Debian system […] The quality is good and everything is working well.[/quote]
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll look for that software and give it a try.
By all means try alternate software, although I feel you would be better served asking this question on a support forum specific to your OS. I’ve had different SIP applications give me hell in the past and was as simple as installing ALSA driver modules and raising levels here and there.
Find a SIP program you like then troubleshoot the underlying issue would be my advice - there may even be support threads for your preferred SIP client on your specific OS and hardware configuration.
taiwantech, thanks for the suggestions - you are probably right, but i am not a serious user of Linux, meaning, i am not yet able to do any under-the-hood work.
What you describe is like what i used to do in the years when the parameters that determined how the MacOS worked in detail were still accessible to the “average user” (that is, i am talking about the pre-PPC era). I had been thinking that i might get there with Linux one day, but i think that train has left for me.
