How to configure gPhone?

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: How to configure gPhone?
started by: bokaroseani

Posted by bokaroseani on Jan. 24 2006,15:51

I am using DSL 2.1b as frugal install on a Thinkpad T20 with 128 MB RAM and I absolutely love it. Thanks to all who have contributed to the development of this distro that is perfect for those of us who use older machines.

I was wondering if someone can guide me through the process of setting up gPhone. When I open the client, it says Status:Waiting for connection... Connected to: <nobody>. It then has two boxes with Mic and Spk that are empty and below them is a "Switch" button (unclickable, ie. greyed out) and another button "mute". Finally it has three buttons - "call", "config" and "quit". When I click on the config button, it asks me to enter receive port and send port for network configuration. It also has several options for sound configuration. I have no clue how to configure all this and start making VoIP calls. Can someone help with the set up. I would really like to try it out.

Also I would appreciate if others have any opinion about the sound quality with gPhone compared to Skype. I tried installing Skype using MyDSL but the sound is not clear. But when I use the same machine on Windows XP the sound is much clearer. I was wondering if this is because the Skype client in DSL has not been perfected yet. So I want to give gphone a try.

Any comments/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Posted by bokaroseani on Jan. 25 2006,06:31

So I guess not many people are using gPhone.

Are there other alternatives that I can use to talk for free with folks on the other side of the world?

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 25 2006,18:21

skype

Posted by bokaroseani on Jan. 25 2006,23:16

Thanks cbagger01. I tried Skype (the version available in MyDSL repository) but the sound quality was not good. But when I use the same machine on Windows XP with Skype 2.0, the sound is much clearer. I wonder if any of you have similar problems with sound quality using Skype with DSL. I am running DSL2.1b on thinkpad T20 with 128mb ram over T1 internet connection.

Does it have anything to do with the Skype version? Is there a easy way to install the current Skype 1.2 for linux that is available on Skype site?