On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Niels Mayer wrote:
> FYI if you're running without pulseaudio (so as to avoid the problems
> it introduces -- see two messages below as examples), the
> GoogleTalkPlugin has an annoying delay every time it tries to access
> an audio device, as it's querying for pul
FYI if you're running without pulseaudio (so as to avoid the problems
it introduces -- see two messages below as examples), the
GoogleTalkPlugin has an annoying delay every time it tries to access
an audio device, as it's querying for pulseaudio and not finding it
present and timing out. Each time
(
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=10ffe01c3a4779f5&fid=10ffe01c3a4779f500048f64576456f8
)
I finally figured out what is going on with some of the ALSA errors
I've been seeing on an ice1712 soundcard.
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-September/0723
Google Voice Chat is now available as RPMs for Fedora >=12 and
OpenSuse (which will still need same lib symlinking as described in my
earlier note)
http://www.google.com/chat/video
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?fid=10ffe01c3a4779f500048f370d827d69
.
Now that I've discovered the way of setting hardware devices in
http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/chat , there's issues that limit
my using GoogleTalkPlugin to "[Logitech USB Headset]" -- a USB headset
that works well.
However,
(1) I have an old Hauppauge PVR-500 dual analog TV card and
/opt
Duh even better than wrappering the GoogleTalkPlugin for using a
different device, you can just go to
http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/chat
and look for "Voice and video chat:" settings.
It'll say "Detecting devices..." for a while, especially if you're not
using pulseaudio, in which case
I finally got tired of google talk for Linux not working due to
ALSA/audio issues (after I'd gotten "this" close hacking the .deb
distribution to work on fedora with chrome, w/o even running googles
init scripts and crontab :-) ) ... so I decided to fix it. The issue
was that the browser was happi
Excited to see
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-phones-from-gmail.html , I was
quickly disappointed to find the plugin only supported debian and was 32
bit. However, I persevered and got it running on Fedora 12 x86_64 anyways.
Solution:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?
