No sound from Playback() or Echo() functions on new install

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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I really hate for my first post to be a question… especially one like this… I’m terribly sorry in advance.

I have a new install of Asterisk on a new computer for testing.

I am running the rPath PoundKey Linux distrobution with the accompanying Asterisk installation from its CD.

My Asterisk configuration has been done according to the instructions in the O’Reilly book (with the exception of the install, which was done by the PoundKey CD).

Currently, I am not using VoIP at all, everything is analog via a Digium TDM400P.

When I call the Asterisk server, it answers, but I get no sound back from the Echo( ) function that the O’Reilly book recommends using in your first FXO test. I tried using the Playback( ) function, with the same result… no sound.

I have followed the instructions on the Asterisk knowledge base pages concerning the issue, and I have also insured that the TDM400P is getting an IRQ that is not zero, and I have ensured, via zttools, that there are no IRQ misses, since that article mentioned that it could be an IRQ issue. According to /proc/interrupts, the TDM400P is sharing IRQ 5 with a USB controller… but I have no USB devices running, and, since I am not getting any IRQ misses, I don’t think this is the issue… but I could be wrong… have been before.

Anyway, here are the relevant config files, and my CLI output. Let me know if any of you have any ideas… it has me quite baffled.

/etc/zaptel.conf:

fxsks=4 loadzone=us defaultzone=us

/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf:

[code][trunkgroups]
; define any trunk groups

[channels]
; hardware channels
; default
usecallerid=yes
hidecallerid=no
callwaiting=no
threewaycalling=yes
transfer=yes
echocancel=yes
echotraining=yes

; define channels
context=incoming ; Incoming calls go to [incoming] in extensions.conf
signalling=fxs_ks ; Use FXS signalling for an FXO channel
channel => 4 ; PSTN attached to port 4[/code]

/etc/asterisk/extensions.conf:

[incoming] ; incoming calls from the FXO port are directed to this context from zapata.conf exten => s,1,Answer( ) exten => s,2,Wait(5) exten => s,3,Playback(tt-monkeys) exten => s,4,Hangup( )

CLI output when call comes in:

-- Starting simple switch on 'Zap/4-1' -- Executing Answer("Zap/4-1", " ") in new stack -- Executing Wait("Zap/4-1", "5") in new stack -- Executing Playback("Zap/4-1", "tt-monkeys") in new stack -- Playing 'tt-monkeys' (language 'en') -- Executing Hangup("Zap/4-1", " ") in new stack == Spawn extension (incoming, s, 4) exited non-zero on 'Zap/4-1' -- Hungup 'Zap/4-1'

When I use the simpler dialplan that is recommended in the O’Reilly book:
/etc/asterisk/extensions.conf:

[incoming] ; incoming calls from the FXO port are directed to this context from zapata.conf exten => s,1,Answer( ) exten => s,2,Echo( )

CLI output:

-- Starting simple switch on 'Zap/4-1' -- Executing Answer("Zap/4-1", " ") in new stack -- Executing Echo("Zap/4-1", " ") in new stack == Spawn extension (incoming, s, 2) exited non-zero on 'Zap/4-1' -- Hungup 'Zap/4-1'

when I use the dialplan with the “Playback( )” function, I get no playback.
when I use the dialplan with the “Echo( )” function, I get no echo.

any ideas?

thanks a lot in advance… and I sure hope that this hasn’t already been answered… I searched through the forums (and online) for about 3 hours before deciding to go ahead and post the question.

Oh, and let me know if you need any more info… I tried to post everything I could think of that you might need… but I may have missed something.

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oops… seems like I missed something in my searching… looks like I am having the same problem as this guy… although I hope that I have done a better job of explaining it… but if this thread needs to be moved, or joined with that one, or deleted, or whatever, that is fine.

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nah, his problem is different, at least your call is answered and it goes through the dialplan.

are the permissions on your sounds directory correct ? /var/lib/asterisk/sounds probably should be owned and accessible by whatever user you’re running Asterisk as.

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[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /var/lib/asterisk/sounds total 1596 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9405 Sep 8 2005 agent-alreadyon.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7689 Sep 8 2005 agent-incorrect.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2640 Sep 8 2005 agent-loggedoff.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2046 Sep 8 2005 agent-loginok.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5544 Sep 8 2005 agent-newlocation.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4884 Sep 8 2005 agent-pass.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7392 Sep 8 2005 agent-user.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7524 Sep 8 2005 auth-incorrect.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1947 Sep 8 2005 auth-thankyou.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 594 Sep 8 2005 beeperr.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 726 Sep 8 2005 beep.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29634 Sep 8 2005 conf-adminmenu.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3630 Sep 8 2005 conf-enteringno.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2376 Sep 8 2005 conf-errormenu.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5709 Sep 8 2005 conf-getchannel.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5511 Sep 8 2005 conf-getconfno.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3696 Sep 8 2005 conf-getpin.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3102 Jan 20 22:20 conf-hasjoin.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2640 Jan 20 22:20 conf-hasleft.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5973 Sep 8 2005 conf-invalid.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4752 Sep 8 2005 conf-invalidpin.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3861 Sep 8 2005 conf-kicked.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3267 Jan 20 22:20 conf-leaderhasleft.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2805 Sep 8 2005 conf-locked.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3597 Sep 8 2005 conf-lockednow.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2178 Sep 8 2005 conf-muted.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4422 Sep 8 2005 conf-noempty.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5511 Jan 20 22:20 conf-onlyone.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5412 Sep 8 2005 conf-onlyperson.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3432 Jan 20 22:20 conf-otherinparty.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3927 Jan 20 22:20 conf-placeintoconf.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1947 Jan 20 22:20 conf-thereare.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4290 Sep 8 2005 conf-unlockednow.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2607 Sep 8 2005 conf-unmuted.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20592 Sep 8 2005 conf-usermenu.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3201 Jan 20 22:20 conf-userswilljoin.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3135 Jan 20 22:20 conf-userwilljoin.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4488 Jan 20 22:20 conf-waitforleader.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23364 Sep 8 2005 demo-abouttotry.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45573 Sep 8 2005 demo-congrats.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4059 Sep 8 2005 demo-echodone.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31812 Sep 8 2005 demo-echotest.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9603 Sep 8 2005 demo-enterkeywords.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110913 Sep 8 2005 demo-instruct.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18810 Sep 8 2005 demo-moreinfo.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16104 Sep 8 2005 demo-nogo.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6336 Sep 8 2005 demo-nomatch.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7920 Sep 8 2005 demo-thanks.gsm drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 02:20 dictate drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 02:20 digits -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10164 Sep 8 2005 dir-instr.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17424 Sep 8 2005 dir-intro-fn.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17556 Sep 8 2005 dir-intro.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3960 Sep 8 2005 dir-nomatch.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4950 Sep 8 2005 dir-nomore.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2838 Jan 20 22:20 hello-world.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7128 Sep 8 2005 invalid.gsm drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 02:20 letters -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6864 Sep 8 2005 pbx-invalid.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8184 Sep 8 2005 pbx-invalidpark.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1551 Sep 8 2005 pbx-transfer.gsm drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 02:20 phonetic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4620 Sep 8 2005 privacy-incorrect.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5973 Sep 8 2005 privacy-prompt.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1947 Sep 8 2005 privacy-thankyou.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7029 Sep 8 2005 privacy-unident.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45375 Jan 20 22:20 priv-callee-options.gsm drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 8 2005 priv-callerintros -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7326 Jan 20 22:20 priv-callpending.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6501 Jan 20 22:20 priv-introsaved.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3498 Jan 20 22:20 priv-recordintro.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3366 Sep 8 2005 queue-callswaiting.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4026 Sep 8 2005 queue-holdtime.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1419 Sep 8 2005 queue-less-than.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1056 Sep 8 2005 queue-minutes.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12474 Jan 20 22:20 queue-periodic-announce.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1188 Sep 8 2005 queue-reporthold.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1386 Sep 8 2005 queue-seconds.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2739 Sep 8 2005 queue-thankyou.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3234 Sep 8 2005 queue-thereare.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8283 Sep 8 2005 queue-youarenext.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25674 Jan 20 22:20 screen-callee-options.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1320 Jan 20 22:20 spy-agent.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2706 Jan 20 22:20 spy-h323.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 957 Jan 20 22:20 spy-iax2.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 957 Jan 20 22:20 spy-iax.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2508 Jan 20 22:20 spy-mgcp.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1254 Jan 20 22:20 spy-sip.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1320 Jan 20 22:20 spy-skinny.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1287 Nov 14 2005 spy-zap.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7689 Sep 8 2005 ss-noservice.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3696 Sep 8 2005 transfer.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13926 Sep 8 2005 tt-allbusy.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26697 Sep 8 2005 tt-monkeys.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4257 Sep 8 2005 tt-monkeysintro.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2871 Sep 8 2005 tt-somethingwrong.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4323 Sep 8 2005 tt-weasels.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3729 Sep 8 2005 vm-advopts.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 957 Sep 8 2005 vm-and.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5115 Sep 8 2005 vm-calldiffnum.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2640 Sep 8 2005 vm-changeto.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2046 Sep 8 2005 vm-Cust1.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1914 Sep 8 2005 vm-Cust2.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2112 Sep 8 2005 vm-Cust3.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1815 Sep 8 2005 vm-Cust4.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277 Sep 8 2005 vm-Cust5.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2112 Sep 8 2005 vm-deleted.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3696 Sep 8 2005 vm-delete.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3267 Sep 8 2005 vm-dialout.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3399 Sep 8 2005 vm-enter-num-to-call.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1914 Sep 8 2005 vm-extension.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 990 Sep 8 2005 vm-Family.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1353 Sep 8 2005 vm-first.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1155 Sep 8 2005 vm-for.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7260 Sep 8 2005 vm-forward.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9702 Sep 8 2005 vm-forwardoptions.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1023 Sep 8 2005 vm-Friends.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2640 Sep 8 2005 vm-from-extension.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 759 Sep 8 2005 vm-from.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2574 Sep 8 2005 vm-from-phonenumber.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1419 Sep 8 2005 vm-goodbye.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5181 Sep 8 2005 vm-helpexit.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 891 Sep 8 2005 vm-INBOX.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2805 Sep 8 2005 vm-incorrect.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4554 Sep 8 2005 vm-incorrect-mailbox.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10659 Sep 8 2005 vm-instructions.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8844 Sep 8 2005 vm-intro.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1980 Sep 8 2005 vm-isonphone.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1980 Sep 8 2005 vm-isunavail.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1254 Sep 8 2005 vm-last.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3828 Sep 8 2005 vm-leavemsg.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3993 Sep 8 2005 vm-login.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6534 Sep 8 2005 vm-mailboxfull.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1320 Sep 8 2005 vm-message.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1452 Sep 8 2005 vm-messages.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1056 Sep 8 2005 vm-minutes.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8085 Sep 8 2005 vm-mismatch.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22341 Sep 8 2005 vm-msginstruct.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3168 Sep 8 2005 vm-msgsaved.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5214 Sep 8 2005 vm-newpassword.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10494 Sep 8 2005 vm-newuser.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3960 Sep 8 2005 vm-next.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4620 Sep 8 2005 vm-nobodyavail.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6864 Sep 8 2005 vm-nobox.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1254 Sep 8 2005 vm-no.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2079 Sep 8 2005 vm-nomore.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4257 Sep 8 2005 vm-nonumber.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2607 Sep 8 2005 vm-num-i-have.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 825 Sep 8 2005 vm-Old.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2244 Sep 8 2005 vm-onefor.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25245 Sep 8 2005 vm-options.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11253 Sep 8 2005 vm-opts.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3366 Sep 8 2005 vm-passchanged.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1551 Sep 8 2005 vm-password.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1320 Sep 8 2005 vm-press.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3696 Sep 8 2005 vm-prev.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4950 Sep 8 2005 vm-reachoper.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7095 Sep 8 2005 vm-rec-busy.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1287 Sep 8 2005 vm-received.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6501 Sep 8 2005 vm-rec-name.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7689 Sep 8 2005 vm-rec-temp.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7524 Sep 8 2005 vm-rec-unv.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7821 Sep 8 2005 vm-reenterpassword.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4092 Sep 8 2005 vm-repeat.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14487 Sep 8 2005 vm-review.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1254 Sep 8 2005 vm-saved.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1584 Sep 8 2005 vm-savedto.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4125 Sep 8 2005 vm-savefolder.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3564 Sep 8 2005 vm-savemessage.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16533 Sep 8 2005 vm-saveoper.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4686 Sep 8 2005 vm-sorry.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3102 Sep 8 2005 vm-star-cancel.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4620 Sep 8 2005 vm-starmain.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11154 Sep 8 2005 vm-tempgreeting2.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5181 Sep 8 2005 vm-tempgreeting.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5148 Sep 8 2005 vm-tempremoved.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2178 Sep 8 2005 vm-then-pound.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2508 Sep 8 2005 vm-theperson.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6204 Sep 8 2005 vm-tocallback.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4554 Sep 8 2005 vm-tocallnum.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2772 Sep 8 2005 vm-tocancel.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5445 Sep 8 2005 vm-tocancelmsg.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4389 Sep 8 2005 vm-toenternumber.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4785 Sep 8 2005 vm-toforward.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5346 Sep 8 2005 vm-tohearenv.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5247 Sep 8 2005 vm-tomakecall.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2904 Sep 8 2005 vm-tooshort.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4422 Sep 8 2005 vm-toreply.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5379 Sep 8 2005 vm-torerecord.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2310 Sep 8 2005 vm-undeleted.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4059 Sep 8 2005 vm-undelete.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277 Sep 8 2005 vm-unknown-caller.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5247 Sep 8 2005 vm-whichbox.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 Sep 8 2005 vm-Work.gsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1320 Sep 8 2005 vm-youhave.gsm

but then, because I have been lazy and this machine is just for testing, I haven’t bothered to set up a limited user account yet… not the best idea, I know… but it is temporary.

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and you’re sure it’s not running as a non-root user ?

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according to top:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2495 root 16 0 4952 1736 1392 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.04 asterisk

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no missing codecs ? if you CLI > show translation do you get number below ‘gsm’ ?

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[code]localhost*CLI> show translation
Translation times between formats (in milliseconds)
Source Format (Rows) Destination Format(Columns)

     g723   gsm  ulaw  alaw  g726 adpcm  slin lpc10  g729 speex  ilbc

g723 - - - - - - - - - - -
gsm - - 2 2 3 2 1 3 - 21 15
ulaw - 2 - 1 3 2 1 3 - 21 15
alaw - 2 1 - 3 2 1 3 - 21 15
g726 - 2 2 2 - 2 1 3 - 21 15
adpcm - 2 2 2 3 - 1 3 - 21 15
slin - 1 1 1 2 1 - 2 - 20 14
lpc10 - 3 3 3 4 3 2 - - 22 16
g729 - - - - - - - - - - -
speex - 3 3 3 4 3 2 4 - - 16
ilbc - 3 3 3 4 3 2 4 - 22 -
[/code]

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well it’s got me baffled too. can you test it with a SIP or IAX softphone, eliminating the Zaptel interface from the setup ? my next thought would be a motherboard issue.

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are there any softphones that you would recommend for such a test?

and I haven’t even had a chance to test from the FXS side… I guess it is possible (though it sounds pretty unlikely) that my FXO module on my TDM400P is bad.

I’m going to try configuring the FXS side and see what happens there… but it is nearing bedtime (I work nights)… so I will probably pick up here tonight and let you know what I find out.

Oh… and the motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 (K8 Triton Series) coupled with an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and 512MB of Crucial DDR400 RAM… are there any known issues with this board?

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the every popular X-Lite from counterpath.com/ is probably the easiest to get going.

can’t help you with the motherboard compatibility i’m sorry. you seem to have researched the issue fairly well so i guess you’ve already googled for others reviews/problems.

have you tried moving slots so that it has it’s own IRQ ?

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:smiley: Amazing, I am not alone with this problem. What has changed since my last post is that I deleted directories from which I installed asterisk and installed it again (latest version of it 1.2.9.1, but previous install was 1.2.9.1 as well). The only thing different now is that increased verbosity works

/usr/sbin/asterisk -vvvv /*returns a slew of messages about asterisk activity but no error messages.*/
and when dialed, CLI now shows what is executed from dialplan (the demo, as set in zapata.conf). But silence is the only thing that is heard.
Although I used X100P and you TDM400P, problems seem to be similar. What version of asterisk are you using?

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[quote=“baconbuttie”]the every popular X-Lite from counterpath.com/ is probably the easiest to get going.[/quote]OK… I’ll give it a shot.

[quote=“baconbuttie”]can’t help you with the motherboard compatibility i’m sorry. you seem to have researched the issue fairly well so i guess you’ve already googled for others reviews/problems.[/quote]yeah, I looked, didn’t find anything… but I thought I would ask in case you (or someone else) might know about something I missed… I was pretty tired by the time I go to that… I will probably search around some more tonight.

[quote=“baconbuttie”]have you tried moving slots so that it has it’s own IRQ ?[/quote]yeah… but only once, and it didn’t change the IRQ… so I am going to try some more slots. The weird thing, that is starting to piss me off about this motherboard, is that when I try to manually assign the IRQ for the card in the BIOS rather than letting it be automatically assigned… it is still automatically assigned to 5… not sure why.

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[quote=“varelg”]and when dialed, CLI now shows what is executed from dialplan (the demo, as set in zapata.conf). But silence is the only thing that is heard.
Although I used X100P and you TDM400P, problems seem to be similar.[/quote]yeah, I tried using the demo dialplan as well with the same result.

[quote=“varelg”]What version of asterisk are you using?[/quote]I am using 1.2.8… maybe I should try upgrading… but if you are having the same problem with 1.2.9.1, it sounds like it isn’t a version issue.

grrr…

well, time to try the softphone…
and the FWS port…
and if all else fails, I have an old PIII laying around that I can test on… but I really would rather be using the machine that I built for this purpose.

If it turns out to be a motherboard issue… does anyone have any recommendations for a socket 939 motherboard?

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well, unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to play with this for a while… but tonight I finally got around to it, and I found that when I plug a phone into my FXS port and configure it for playback or echo, it works fine. So now I am starting to wonder about this… I hope that I don’t have a bad FXO port.

I’ll prolly call Digium in the morning.

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even more frustration.

after configuring and testing the FXS port and finding that it will perform both the Playback( ) and Echo( ) functions, I decided to try replacing the Playback( ) or Echo( ) functions for the FXO dialplan to Dial(Zap/1). When I call the Asterisk server now, the call is patched through to the phone plugged into the FXS port, and the phone rings… but I still get no sound. Definately going to be calling Digium when they open in an hour and a half… afraid I have a bad FXO module.

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OK… I RMA’d the FXO module, and when I got the replacement in the mail, everything just magically worked. So, it was a bad FWO module after all.

I thought I would let everyone know, in case they run into the same problem… this way they don’t have to go through quite so much stress trying to figure it out. :wink: