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 it will time out multiple times outputting 9 lines of socket(): Address family not supported by protocol socket(): Address family not supported by protocol .... But if you wait long enough, eventually you're given the same listing as "aplay -L" so you can choose the equivalent of "front:CARD=Headset,DEV=0" for both microphone and speakers (or even a different device for microphone if you've got a webcam with a built in usb mic). It's silly to use the "aplay -L" listing as you're given additional choices that make no sense for voice chatting: surround40:CARD=Headset,DEV=0 ; surround41:CARD=Headset,DEV=0 ; surround50:CARD=Headset,DEV=0 ; surround51:CARD=Headset,DEV=0 ; surround71:CARD=Headset,DEV=0 ; iec958:CARD=Headset,DEV=0 ... As final confusion, http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/chat also lists "aplay -L" outputs for the microphone, so you end up seeing nonsense like "7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers" as a potential choice of microphone source. Fortunately it works with both "speaker" and microphone" set to the "front" source of the desired card. I never realized the gmail Settings->Chat options would do anything useful beyond saying ""Detecting devices..." forever, as I never thought of waiting till pulseaudio timed out 9 times before checking the web page... Thus the previous attempt at wrappering GoogleTalkPlugin ... at least it taught me their plugin is setting some interesting environment variables: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/google/chrome:/opt/google/chrome/lib: GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG=SET_BY_GOOGLE_CHROME SANDBOX_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/google/chrome:/opt/google/chrome/lib: CHROME_WRAPPER=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA=beta Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: For those getting reports of echo on the caller end, there is a Settings->Chat option for echo-cancellation that appeared to be set by default. There's also a "send call quality info back to google" button that is also selected by default -- those worried about these kinds of things may want to change this option. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
