[Asterisk-bsd] Queue announcement issues

[Phil Jordan]

Hi

I've been using Asterisk in various versions on FreeBSD for some time  
now, but I've only just got to messing around with ACD.

I find I can't get any in-queue announcements to work, be they either  
periodic or queue position announcements. I've read all of the recent  
posts on this, and the closest thing to my problem I can find is a  
chap on asterisk-users who reported something similar, but fixed it by  
not selecting the "r" queue option. That doesn't work for me (I wasn't  
using it anyway) - and I've dropped all queue options as a test, still  
to no avail.

Before I bother the other nice people on asterisk-users about this one  
and start posting configs, can someone on this list please clarify  
something for me? I see stuff around on the net re the BSD port, to  
the effect that there are some issues with Asterisk applications which  
are related to timers. What exactly is meant by that please? Is that  
what I'm suffering from here or is it something entirely different?

My environment is FreeBSD 5.3.18 (in production use), Asterisk 1.2.9.1  
from Ports, no hardware telephony cards (using a wholesale IAX  
provider). Calls are being routed in via IAX2 and the agents are on  
IAX2 hardphones, not that that latter makes any difference methinks.

Many thanks in advance for any help that can be offered.

Phil