Regarding Google's recent release of Voice/Video chat for Linux . I was able to install the Fedora i386 RPM's on Meego, with some minor adjustments. I downloaded the RPM from http://www.google.com/chat/video/download.html?platform=linux_fedora_i386
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=10ffe01c3a4779f5&hl=en&fid=10ffe01c3a4779f500048f7f414b878b ................................ Notes on getting googletalk plugin installed on Meego ( http://meego.com ) on Acer Aspire One D250 netbook: Linux jtm-desktop 2.6.33.5-24.1-netbook #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 14 07:48:33 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux aka "MeeGo v1.0.2 Netbook Update" (9 August, 2010) [r...@jtm-desktop Downloads]# rpm -ivh google-talkplugin_current_i386.rpm warning: google-talkplugin_current_i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY error: Failed dependencies: at is needed by google-talkplugin-1.5.1.0-1.i386 libGLEW.so.1.5 is needed by google-talkplugin-1.5.1.0-1.i386 libcrypto.so.10 is needed by google-talkplugin-1.5.1.0-1.i386 libssl.so.10 is needed by google-talkplugin-1.5.1.0-1.i386 Solving above, I installed: yum install at-3.1.10-29.6.i586 yum install glew Trying again: error: Failed dependencies:[r...@jtm-desktop Downloads]# rpm -ivh google-talkplugin_current_i386.rpm warning: google-talkplugin_current_i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY libcrypto.so.10 is needed by google-talkplugin-1.5.1.0-1.i386 libssl.so.10 is needed by google-talkplugin-1.5.1.0-1.i386 These libs are installed but wrong version: /lib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 308604 May 1 21:52 libssl.so.0.9.8m* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 May 1 21:52 .libssl.so.0.9.8m.hmac lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 24 23:13 libssl.so.8 -> libssl.so.0.9.8m* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 24 23:13 .libssl.so.8.hmac -> .libssl.so.0.9.8m.hmac /lib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1535972 May 1 21:52 libcrypto.so.0.9.8m* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 May 1 21:52 .libcrypto.so.0.9.8m.hmac lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 May 24 23:13 libcrypto.so.8 -> libcrypto.so.0.9.8m* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 May 24 23:13 .libcrypto.so.8.hmac -> .libcrypto.so.0.9.8m.hmac Force the install: [r...@jtm-desktop Downloads]# rpm --nodeps -ivh google-talkplugin_current_i386.rpm warning: google-talkplugin_current_i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991: NOKEY Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:google-talkplugin ########################################### [100%] [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m] job 1 at 2010-09-05 00:16 Test run: n...@jtm-desktop talkplugin]$ ./GoogleTalkPlugin ./GoogleTalkPlugin: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Make symlinks to work around version mismatch in libs: [r...@jtm-desktop Downloads]# ln -s /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8m /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.10 [r...@jtm-desktop Downloads]# ln -s /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8m /usr/lib/libssl.so.10 Now it works: [...@jtm-desktop talkplugin]$ ./GoogleTalkPlugin Running the plugin, everything works as expected, HOWEVER: The built-in microphone in the netbook doesn't pickup sound when using GoogleTalkPlugin -- only the microphone jack with an external mic. Applications like gnome-sound-recorder work with the built-in mic, however, so this seems to be some odd ALSA configuration issue. Actually, I was once able to get GoogleTalkPlugin to work with the internal mic, but it seems like something was wrong with the AGC as it was barely audible, or distorted. And I couldn't figure out a way to reliably get it to accept sound from the internal mic -- not clear what sequence of events caused it to work. However, with the external mic plugged in to the netbook's 1/8" phone jacks, everything worked fine and was reliable. So the obvious solution with the netbook is to use an "analog" headset with combined microphone and headphones. The Netbook's video camera was recognized by default and worked fine. Oh, and the netbook/meego is running pulseaudio. -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
