Can I have MIC when doing ALSA emulation

[freedom]

I have working OSS with my KDE4 and Phonon's XINE backend. But I have trouble with Qutecom app for SIP telephony which in configuration window of audio devices give me only ALSA: default.
So I found in OSS Wiki Tips&Tricks that ALSA emulation can be done with that kind of apps and I create .asoundrc with suggested content.
Now I have sound from app but I don't have microphone in so I cannot use telephony app.

[cesium]

I don't think input works with ALSA emu using pcm-oss. Maybe cuckoo will work, but it usually doesn't...
I do have an (untested) idea, but it's a bit complex:

Download the qutecom source ("apt-get source qutecom")
Edit debian/rules in the newly created qutecom source dir, and change
"-DOWSOUND_PORTAUDIO_SUPPORT=OFF" to
"-DOWSOUND_PORTAUDIO_SUPPORT=1".
Get the build dependencies ("sudo apt-get build-dep qutecom") and portaudio ("sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev").
You may (not sure here) also have to to edit libs/sound/CMakeList.txt and have it include the libs/sound/src/portaudio/AudioDeviceManager.cpp file under the Linux defines (see WIN32 section for how it probably should be done...)
Now build qutecom ("dpkg-buildpackage" in the source dir. No need for sudo if you have fakeroot installed).
Install the generated .deb file. ("sudo dpkg -i" etc.)

This procedure ought to build qutecom with portaudio support, which should allow it to use OSS directly..

[igorzwx]

I have an (untested) idea
This procedure ought to build qutecom with portaudio support, which should allow it to use OSS directly..

It may not work, if PortAudio was compiled with --disable-oss (or something like this).
In short, it depends on how PortAudio was compiled.
On Ubuntu, you may need to recompile PortAudio.

[Temüjin]

It may not work, if PortAudio was compiled with --disable-oss (or something like this).

This is not a concern. Ubuntu builds PortAudio with OSS enabled.

[freedom]

I contacted one of qutecom developers and it seems that ...

Seems that OSS and ALSA support are both activated into phone engine by
default. (not sure oss support is functional)

Looking at libs/sound/src/linux/AudioDeviceManager.cpp, audio device
list is built with alsa .
(This why you cannot select OSS device in gui ...)
QuteCom lacks an AudioDeviceManager interface for OSS.
Laurent

So for now it is not possible

[cesium]

Hmm.. If I could make such a file, maybe they'll accept it? Also, how about the possibility of trying PortAudio?

[freedom]

Well, too many dependancies and -dev packages for me... (half a gigabyte)
I think i'll stick with Ekiga for now until qutecom developers include OSS support into their AudioDeviceManager.