Trying to get support for some Neo setup problems...

john dowd jdowdster at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 16:03:25 CET 2008


Already checked but no joy.

Al, I was fooling around with the GUI and found the "About" menu item
that had the linphone website on it. Rather than bother you and the
community (since I'm actually being paid to do this!!) I'll work
through the website and figure out my problems. Thanks for the help.

Cheers!!

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Al Johnson
<openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Probably the wrong path to the icon in the .desktop file which from memory
> will be something like /usr/share/applications/linphone.desktop
>
> On Friday 19 December 2008, john dowd wrote:
>> 2.1.1 it appears. And since I have never used gnome (I'm a KDE guy), I
>> had not thought of checking the gnome resource directory. I'll modify
>> it and see if that gets it working.
>>
>> Since you seem to be in an informative mood I have one more question
>> (for now.. lol). The array of Icon's displayed by the GUI (I guess I'm
>> using illume/enlightenment GUI) only shows a blank box for the
>> linphone icon. I can see that it installed various "png" files to use.
>> Any ideas what I should look at as to why its not displaying the
>> proper icon file?
>>
>> Thanks for all your help Al.
>>
>> Cheers!!
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Al Johnson
>>
>> <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Which version are you running? It used to be ~/.linphonerc for CLI and
>> > ~/.gnome2/linphone for GUI in 1.6 and 1.7, and probably 2.x too.
>> >
>> > On Friday 19 December 2008, john dowd wrote:
>> >> But where does it go? Right now, the linphone application is using the
>> >> username for the "user account" of the registration. In the
>> >> configuration files of the cli version its set correctly.
>> >>
>> >> I tried to run "strace" on the GUI version to watch and see when it
>> >> tried to open a configuration file but no joy. Didn't seem to even
>> >> try.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers!!
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Al Johnson
>> >>
>> >> <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> >> > The structure of the config files for the linphone CLI and GUI are the
>> >> > same, so you should be able to take the working one for the CLI and
>> >> > copy it over the GUI one. At the very least you should be able to copy
>> >> > the registration details from one and paste it into the other.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Friday 19 December 2008, john dowd wrote:
>> >> >> Thanks for the response guys, I appreciate the help.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I was able to get the linphone application installed manually
>> >> >> (package by package) onto the Neo. It even works to a point. I've
>> >> >> only managed to get the command line version to work. So (this is
>> >> >> funny), in order to place a SIP phone call from my Neo, I have to ssh
>> >> >> into it from my laptop and then using the command line "linphonec"
>> >> >> application, I can then actually register with the PBX and place a
>> >> >> call. As a demo, this is really going to suck.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I can't seem to configure the GUI version to use the appropriate
>> >> >> settings to register with the PBX. I'll have a look at the source
>> >> >> code (if I can find it) and if it's a dead end, I'll pull apart the
>> >> >> twinkle debian package and try to install it. Any further advice
>> >> >> would be appreciated.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Cheers!!
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors
>> >> >>
>> >> >> <timo.lindfors at iki.fi> wrote:
>> >> >> > "Robin Paulson" <robin.paulson at gmail.com> writes:
>> >> >> >> extrapolating this point further, would it be possible to
>> >> >> >> (manually) install apt and related tools to an om2008.9 system,
>> >> >> >> and get access to the debian archives directly?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Chroot is the easiest way to do that. Surely it will waste extra
>> >> >> > 200M of space but SD cards are cheap.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
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