ekiga on thin client

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006, one at one.cz wrote:

> I would like to use SIP phone on edubuntu thin clients.
> Sound in XMMS via eSound Output Plugin works fine. How to setup Ekiga or 
> any SIP softphone to work on client? It starts but the sound is coming 
> out from the speaker of the server. I tried to start ekiga 
> --enable-sound --espeaker=10.0.0.20:16001 but nothing changed.

I'm not clear why the sound isn't working above.  Aside from that though,
for the time being I'm not sure if ekiga is likely to be practical on thin
clients due to probable lack of microphone support on thin clients.

This feature specification includes the text "Support for mixer and mic
support looks feasable under Pulse"

https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/edgy-plusone-thinclient-sound

Until you have mic support Ekiga's going to be pretty useless and mixer
support is probably quite important too.

I'm not certain of this, but it looks unlikely to me until the above gets
implemented.

Gavin