V20.6.0 and overhead paging via sound card

Once upon a time I had overhead paging working via a sound card. One extension was assigned to it and I could access it with “Dial(console/dsp,A(beep))”.

With my latest installation (v20.6.0 on Ubuntu 24.4LTS) it doesn’t want to work. I always get the warning: “No channel type registered for ‘console’” followed by the notice: “Unable to create channel of type ‘console’ (cause 66 - Channel not implemented)”.

I have tried editing modules.conf to load either chan_oss.so or chan_alsa.so but nothing improves.

Any hints?

The chan_alsa and chan_oss modules are in Asterisk 20, but not built by default. Did you enable either? The new console channel driver is chan_console which has different dependencies.

I’m using ready-made packages from Ubuntu. I’m not sure how they were built.

Packages available to me include:

asterisk/noble,now 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 amd64 [installed]
Open Source Private Branch Exchange (PBX)

asterisk-config/noble,now 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 all [installed,automatic]
Configuration files for Asterisk

asterisk-core-sounds-en/noble,now 1.6.1-1 all [installed,automatic]
asterisk PBX sound files - US English

asterisk-core-sounds-en-g722/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - en-us/g722

asterisk-core-sounds-en-gsm/noble,now 1.6.1-1 all [installed,automatic]
asterisk PBX sound files - en-us/gsm

asterisk-core-sounds-en-wav/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - en-us/wav

asterisk-core-sounds-es/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - Spanish

asterisk-core-sounds-es-g722/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - es-mx/g722

asterisk-core-sounds-es-gsm/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - es-mx/gsm

asterisk-core-sounds-es-wav/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - es-mx/wav

asterisk-core-sounds-fr/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - Canadian French

asterisk-core-sounds-fr-g722/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - fr-ca/g722

asterisk-core-sounds-fr-gsm/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - fr-ca/gsm

asterisk-core-sounds-fr-wav/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - fr-ca/wav

asterisk-core-sounds-it/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - Italian

asterisk-core-sounds-it-g722/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - it-it/g722

asterisk-core-sounds-it-gsm/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - it-it/gsm

asterisk-core-sounds-it-wav/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - it-it/wav

asterisk-core-sounds-ru/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - Russian

asterisk-core-sounds-ru-g722/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - ru-ru/g722

asterisk-core-sounds-ru-gsm/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - ru-ru/gsm

asterisk-core-sounds-ru-wav/noble 1.6.1-1 all
asterisk PBX sound files - ru-ru/wav

asterisk-dahdi/noble 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 amd64
DAHDI devices support for the Asterisk PBX

asterisk-dev/noble 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 all
Development files for Asterisk

asterisk-doc/noble,now 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 all [installed]
Source code documentation for Asterisk

asterisk-espeak/noble 5.0~1-4ubuntu1 amd64
eSpeak module for Asterisk

asterisk-flite/noble 3.0-4 amd64
flite module for Asterisk

asterisk-mobile/noble,now 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 amd64 [installed]
Bluetooth phone support for the Asterisk PBX

asterisk-modules/noble,now 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
loadable modules for the Asterisk PBX

asterisk-moh-opsound-g722/noble 2.03-1.1 all
asterisk extra sound files - English/g722

asterisk-moh-opsound-gsm/noble,now 2.03-1.1 all [installed,automatic]
asterisk extra sound files - English/gsm

asterisk-moh-opsound-wav/noble 2.03-1.1 all
asterisk extra sound files - English/wav

asterisk-mp3/noble,now 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 amd64 [installed]
MP3 playback support for the Asterisk PBX

asterisk-mysql/noble 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 amd64
MySQL database protocol support for the Asterisk PBX

asterisk-ooh323/noble 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 amd64
H.323 protocol support for the Asterisk PBX - ooH323c

asterisk-prompt-de/noble 2.0-1.2 all
German voice prompts for the Asterisk PBX

asterisk-prompt-es-co/noble 0.20070403-2.1 all
Colombian Spanish voice prompts for Asterisk

asterisk-prompt-fr-armelle/noble 20070613-2.2 all
French voice prompts for Asterisk by Armelle Desjardins

asterisk-prompt-it-menardi/noble 1:1.4.22+mm20110907-3.2 all
asterisk PBX Italian sound files

asterisk-prompt-it-menardi-alaw/noble 1:1.4.22+mm20110907-3.2 all
asterisk PBX Italian sound files - a-law prompts

asterisk-prompt-it-menardi-gsm/noble 1:1.4.22+mm20110907-3.2 all
asterisk PBX Italian sound files - gsm prompts

asterisk-prompt-it-menardi-wav/noble 1:1.4.22+mm20110907-3.2 all
asterisk PBX Italian sound files - wav prompts

asterisk-tests/noble 1:20.6.0~dfsg+~cs6.13.40431414-2build5 amd64
internal test modules of the Asterisk PBX