[Asterisk-Users] Trying to clarify ideas about spands, libtiff & FC4

[Carlos Alperin]

Thanks I'll try it.

Regards,

Carlos

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Juan Jose
Comellas
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Trying to clarify ideas about spands,libtiff &
FC4

I've been using spandsp 0.0.2pre18 and 0.0.2pre21 with libtiff 3.7.3,
Asterisk 
1.0.7 (now 1.0.9) and the Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 kernel with results that are

good enough for me (I'm using fax over IP with the G.711 codec).


On Sunday 23 October 2005 13:23, Carlos Alperin wrote:
> I spent more than 3 weeks, with some little help of people that belongs to
> this forum, and after try differents combinations of versions this is my
> conclusion:
>
>
>
> I tried RH9, FC4 & FC4 64
>
> I tried with CVS 1.0.2, and Stable 1.0.9
>
> I tried with spandsp 0.0.2pre18, 0.0.2pre20 & 0.0.2pre21
>
> Libtiff 3.5.7 & libtiff devel 3.5.7
>
> Libtiff 3.7.1 & libtiff devel 3.7.3 (I couldn't find 3.7.1)
>
>
>
> My conclusion is:
>
>
>
> If I need to be able to use fax with Spandsp, app_rxfax.c & app_txfax.c
> with libtiff 3.5.7 (and libtiff devel 3.5.7) there is no way to do that on
> FC4 (get conflict with GTK2+)
>
> So it looks like I have to go back to RH9 and at least upgrade to kernel
> 2.4.31, and try again.
>
>
>
> This is under the presumption that Spandsp, & the rest are going to work.
> (Looking at the forum, that is not a 100% fact).
>
>
>
> It should be a way to save us a lot of time, if somebody can unify all the
> requeriments on each OS, so we can decide before to start which direction
> to follow.
>
>
>
> The reason for RH9 & FC4 is because they're more familiar. But if someone
> can show me a working configuration, I don't hesitate to move the
platform.
>
>
>
> By the way, the 64 bits platform still looks to be very unstable and not
so
> fast to implement with Asterisk.
>
>
>
> To the digium support: I understand that your recommendation is to go to
> 2.6 kernel, but if I need to run spandsp, how to do that without libtiff
> 3.5.7.
>
>
>
> The general experience is libtiff 3.7.1 locks the asterisk when the
machine
> boots.
>
>
>
> Please feel free to send every kind of disappointments opinions. That is
> going to feel me much better that no answers.
>
> (Even if you can show me how stupid I was doing all kind of mistakes)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Carlos Alperin

-- 
Juan Jose Comellas
(juanjo at comellas.com.ar)

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