Voice chat with Google talk user using Empathy

[mthakur2006]

you click on the mic icon besides any of your contact, and then you get a screen (in my case) without any possibity of doin anything, its all grayed out.

there is no mic icon beside the contact!

[n77]

Check your version. If you have 0.22.1 you can't vc.

Empathy version has got to be 0.23.3.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

if that does not work, open synaptic package manager and look for upgradable packages and mark them. Some packages may fail to mark. Don't worry just mark the ones you can one by one and upgrade.

[mthakur2006]

it is the latest version, still no mic icon. i am attaching the screenshots.

[mthakur2006]

bump
i need help with these please
this is the only reason for me having to dual boot windows

[sergiom99]

sorry, I am also clueless.
It doesnt work in my Kubuntu either.

[peacewithall]

Thanks for this works perfectly on my Ubuntu 8.04, sound quality of skype has been unbearable, this has saved me, because most people I know have Windows, and up until now I was left out, as I could only use Skype, and with that terrible noise it produced, hardly recognisable as a voice, did not make me want to use it.

Anyway thank you very much, I do really appreciate this guide a lot .

[mthakur2006]

it is the latest version, still no mic icon. i am attaching the screenshots.

Never mind y'all -- it WORKS!
just two things:
-sound quality is not as good
-mic starts screaming when placed near the speakers which it didn't do in windows ??

ta

[sergiom99]

how did you make it???
this is what i get in konsole when launching and the closing empathy.

sergio@kubuntu:~$ empathy
** (empathy:22495): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:22495): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_message_actual: MC not running.

(empathy:22495): libebook-WARNING **: Can't find installed BookFactories

(empathy:22495): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
** (empathy:22495): DEBUG: mission_control_get_online_connections: MC not running.
** (empathy:22495): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:22495): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
sergio@kubuntu:~$

[sergiom99]

am I missing some packages? Is there a bug that needs to be filed somewhere?

[vigyani]

Sorry for not checking this post for long time.

Empathy works for me and I use vioce chat. Vioce quality is good. May you have to configure mic and speaker to get better quality.

If I run it from terminal i.e. CLI; I do get some debug information but empathy works without any problems.

Once you start emapthy, you need to configure your account information.
Go to edit and configure your account.

The debug information I get is given below; but this does not stop me from using empathy;
laptop-01:~$ empathy
** (empathy:10081): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:10081): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_message_actual: MC not running.

(empathy:10081): Gtk-WARNING **: Global Menu Library(libgnomenu) not found. Fall back to GTK code for handling menu bar. GTK-aqd is intended to provide Global Menusupport from legacy GTK applications.
** (empathy:10081): DEBUG: mission_control_get_online_connections: MC not running.
** (empathy:10081): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:10081): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:10081): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.

Hope this helps.
regards
Vig