[Asterisk-Users] Fwd: Asterisk on Solaris 10 (AMD Opteron, Sun Fire X2100)

[Mike Clark]

Steve Kennedy wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:16:06AM -0500, Alexander Burke wrote:
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>>Hello, Steve!
>>At 03:55 AM 02/21/2006, you wrote:
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>>>ztdummy was only used for timing. Linux 2.6 provides this function in
>>>the kernel and I assume Solaris already has timing functions there.
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>>Page 36 of Asterisk: The Future Of Telephony 
>>(O'Reilly Press) states that you either require a 
>>Digium PCI card to provide clocking, or ztdummy 
>>if you "lack the PCI hardware required to provide 
>>timing". It goes on to mention that a UHCI USB 
>>controller was required pre-2.6 but now that 
>>there's a 1kHz clocking source in the kernel, 
>>ztdummy will attach to that instead, thus 
>>eliminating the requirement for the UHCI USB controller.
>>While it doesn't explicity say so, it seems to 
>>very strongly imply that either a PCI card or 
>>ztdummy are *required* for some Asterisk 
>>functionality (namely music-on-hold and 
>>conferencing, apparently). Is this actually not the case?
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>OK, that's not what I inferred - but you could be right?
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>Is there a definative answer on this, or I'll have to go and re-install
>a test system ;)
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>Steve
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When I try to start a meetme conference on an Asterisk system without 
TDM hardware or ztdummy loaded, Allison pleasantly tells me " That is 
not a valid conference....".

Mike Clark