I am trying to install an IAX client on a gentoo linux laptop to communicate with an Asterisk server I'm building on my home network (through NAT, which is why I need IAX vs. SIP soft phone--*really* don't want to open up 10,000 UDP ports in my firewall 8| ).

Unfortunately, when I try to run iaxcomm (iaxcomm-lin-1.0rc3), I get the following error:

Error wxWindows Fatal Error : Couldn't Initialize IAX Client

Google searches haven't turned up anything helpful, and I couldn't find any documentation on the iaxcomm sourceforge page. Has anyone here seen and solved this problem?

TIA!

Should have thought of this sooner...ran the program as root, and it worked fine. "chmod 666 /dev/sound/*" fixed the problem for my non-privileged user account.

The files in /dev/sound are all owned by root:audio, permissions were "crw-rw----" and I'm in the audio group, so I'll have to figure out why my normal account didn't have permissions to the sound devices, but at this point, finding the real fix (not the ugly hack described above) should be relatively simple.

At least this is now documented somewhere for the next person who sees this problem, lol.