[Asterisk-Users] Playback of sound files but no sound

[Gareth Blades]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 13:46, Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote:
> Bart Van Daal wrote:
> > Thanks for your answer,
> > 
> > I've compiled and loaded 'ztdummy' but still no sound.
> > here's the relevant portion of lsmod:
> > ztdummy                 2464   0  (unused)
> > wcusb                  19552   0  (unused)
> > zaptel                178752   0  [ztdummy wcusb]
> > i810_audio             28824   0  (autoclean)
> > ac97_codec             16840   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
> > soundcore               6436   2  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
> > usb-uhci               25740   0  [ztdummy] 
> > Maybe a irrelevant question but do I need alsa or oss (alsa.conf oss.conf)
> > to play back these sound files?
> 
> That's because you do NOT need a Zaptel timer for Playback, Background, 
> or MoH.

No but when I installed my new server I had installed zaptel but left it
unconfigured and this is the exact same problem I had. By enabling
ztdummy everything started working.
I think because zaptel was there it tried using it for timing but as the
card was not configured it caused the problem. Asterisk was complaining
about not being able to find a timing source.