Bug#572422: ekiga: no audio output if audio device NOT set to default

[Andres Cimmarusti]

Package: ekiga
Version: 3.2.6-1
Severity: normal

During the first configuration of ekiga (wizard) I selected my device as 
ringing and sound out device, i.e. ATI IXP (PTLIB/ALSA). My initial tests 
showed ekiga worked well. However I noticed that when mixing sound from
different sources (totem, iceweasel, mpg123, etc) and ekiga (I tried this 
with the echo test) I got an error that sound device for output was 
unavailable. On the other hand, if I only run the echo test in ekiga, but 
then try to play a sound with another program, the latter is muted.

I decided to select (under configuration) as ringing and audio out, the 
option: Default (PTLIB/ALSA). By doing this, sound mixing is working.
Note: I have installed the base default system which does not install all 
pulseaudio (only libpulse0).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ekiga depends on:
ii  evolution-data-server    2.28.2-1        evolution database backend server
ii  gconf2                   2.28.0-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.28.0-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libavahi-client3         0.6.25-3        Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3         0.6.25-3        Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1           0.6.25-3        Avahi glib integration library
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-6        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.84-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9            2.28.2-1        Client library for evolution addre
ii  libedataserver1.2-11     2.28.2-1        Utility library for evolution data
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.4.2-9       GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4              2.28.0-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.22.4-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.18.6-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libldap-2.4-2            2.4.17-2.1      OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-g 0.4.5-1         sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libopal3.6.6             3.6.6~dfsg-3    Open Phone Abstraction Library - s
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.26.2-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpt2.6.5               2.6.5-1         Portable Tools Library
ii  libpt2.6.5-plugins       2.6.5-1         Portable Tools Library plugins
ii  libsasl2-2               2.1.23.dfsg1-5  Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a       2.2.4.2-1       type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6               4.4.2-9         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.3.3-1       X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                 2:1.1.1-2       X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2                  2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxv1                   2:1.0.5-1       X11 Video extension library

Versions of packages ekiga recommends:
ii  gvfs                     1.4.3-1         userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                     2.28.0+webkit-2 Help browser for GNOME

Versions of packages ekiga suggests:
pn  asterisk                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  callweaver                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  gnugk                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  mediaproxy                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  openser                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  rtpproxy                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  ser                           <none>     (no description available)
pn  siproxd                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  yate                          <none>     (no description available)

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