[Asterisk-Users] Strange Quality problems with Asterisk, Gentoo, Redhat and Kernels - /dev/dsp]

[Deon Rodden]

Sorry about that guys. Mozilla Thunderbird for Linux doesn't let you 
"Send Again" like Eudora can. It also doesn't let you edit messages you 
forward. I meant to send this to this but Thunderbird chose to send it 
to the person directly.

Anyways, is there any problems with my compile options? I still feel 
like I'm missing something, albeit minor, crucial to the normal 
operation of Asterisk.

Deon Rodden wrote:

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> Subject:
> Re: [Asterisk-Users] Strange Quality problems with Asterisk, Gentoo, 
> Redhat and Kernels - /dev/dsp
> From:
> Deon Rodden <drodden at webunited.net>
> Date:
> Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:05:39 -0400
> To:
> Duane Cox <duanec at mail.illicom.net>
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> To:
> Duane Cox <duanec at mail.illicom.net>
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> I was under the impression from a couple of coworkers that 2.4.27 was 
> buggy. I was going to try 2.4.26 on my Redhat server to see if that 
> took. I've been over that config 300 times, it's perfect. It is custom 
> to hardware as well, only what I need. I didn't compile in usb, or 
> soundcard support. I didn't compile any SCSI driver other than the one 
> that my system had. No IDE drivers whatsoever. No other network card 
> drivers except the one my system had. No /dev/agpart or video card 
> drivers whatsoever.
> That particular machine had dual processors so I compiled SMP support.
>
> I didn't compile in RTC (Real Time Clock) support, as I downloaded 
> zaprtc, compiled it, modprobe'd zaptel, modprobe'd zaprtc, and ran 
> rtcsetup in the background.
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> Duane Cox wrote:
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>> no patches, source linux-2.4.27.tar.gz
>> I have a kernel built to this hardware and only compiled what I needed.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deon Rodden" <drodden at webunited.net>
>> To: "Duane Cox" <duanec at mail.illicom.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Strange Quality problems with Asterisk, 
>> Gentoo, Redhat and Kernels - /dev/dsp
>>
>>
>>> Any patches to your 2.4.27 kernel? Can you share your .config file? 
>>> Maybe I can compare the differences (besides the hardware).
>>>
>>> Duane Cox wrote:
>>>
>>>> For what it's worth, I'm using linux-2.4.27 kernel built with 
>>>> gcc-3.3.4
>>>> and glibc-2.3.3  and everything is completely fine...  totaly 
>>>> custom distro.
>>>>
>>>> Duane Cox
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deon Rodden" 
>>>> <drodden at webunited.net>
>>>> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 9:56 AM
>>>> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Strange Quality problems with Asterisk, 
>>>> Gentoo, Redhat and Kernels - /dev/dsp
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I've compiled Asterisk on Redhat 9 and Fedora Core 1 in the past, 
>>>>> generally without any problems. Especially w/ the stock kernel, 
>>>>> which I generally loathe. When I tried to upgrade my Redhat 9 
>>>>> Server to the 2.4.27 kernel, doing a manual/clean compile, I had 
>>>>> massive quality issues. I was forced to go back down to a stock 
>>>>> 2.4.24 kernel. Never figured out why.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, I've installed Gentoo and am using the 2.4.26 kernel, and 
>>>>> things initially appeared ok. I emerge'd Asterisk, the 
>>>>> dependencies were downloaded compiled, Asterisk 0.9.0 was 
>>>>> compiled, I then used cvs to update to the latest 
>>>>> libpri/zaptel/asterisk. Everything seemed fine. However, I'm 
>>>>> noticing the occasional quality issue. First I just thought the 
>>>>> music on hold was a little choppy, but that always seems normal, I 
>>>>> blamed the zaprtc/rtcsetup thing I'm using to get zaptel timing.
>>>>>
>>>>> But then we noticed problems with Grandstream phones. The 
>>>>> grandstream would connect to the Gentoo Asterisk Server via SIP, 
>>>>> then go out via IAX across a T1 to the main asterisk server 
>>>>> (Redhat 9), which then pushes the call via SIP to a Cisco Router 
>>>>> that's connected to several PRI's. My last clue therem ay be a 
>>>>> problem with Gentoo is the T1 card we put in another server. We 
>>>>> put a T100P in another Gentoo server, therefore didn't need 
>>>>> zaprtc/rtcsetup, and it uses pri-net to simulate a Voice T1 PRI 
>>>>> for a PBX system. Calls will come in via IAX2, from my main 
>>>>> asterisk server, and it will then (using Zap) go out the T100P 
>>>>> into the PBX. There's an intermittant quality issue there as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only clues in the log files was something about /dev/dsp 
>>>>> missing. This didn't seem a big deal, music on hold worked, etc. 
>>>>> but I noticed that /dev/dsp existed on my redhat machines, even 
>>>>> though they're the same servers, no sound cards or anything. The 
>>>>> kernel on the Redhat machines was compiled with several sound card 
>>>>> modules, but nothing integrated. An 'lsmod' reveals a module 
>>>>> called soundcore loaded, but I can't find soundcore on my Gentoo 
>>>>> machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there anything mandator in the compilation of the kernel that 
>>>>> will affect Asterisk's quality? The CPU load on the systems is 
>>>>> nothing. Everything "appears" normal. The only common factor is 
>>>>> custom compiled kernel. A custom compiled 2.4.27 on Redhat had 
>>>>> problems, and a Custom Compiled 2.4.26-gentoo on Gentoo has 
>>>>> not-so-apparent problems too.  I've always been on top of the 
>>>>> latest CVS updates on Zaptel/Asterisk/libPRI
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