While I seemed to be one of the first (mortal) users to have Second Lifeŧ Voice running on Linux, I usually don’t use it, and with the recent updates, it didn’t work anymore. Now here come 2 kludges to fix your Linux Voice with the current Clients:

1. Install a pulseaudio enabled libopenal. This may or may not be nessecary, depending on how recent your system is, it’s described here.
2. On systems that don’t have a power management enabled CPU, libvivox seems to bail out (Jira Entry). The fix is funny, you create your own “/proc/cpuinfo” in your secondlife-directory/lib, and change the lines starting with “power management:” to “power management: “. Note the gap.^^ Now you just “patch” the libvivox (with good old sed) to read from there, instead of the /proc interface.
3. Voila, I have a white dot over my head, and can see other people in the chatbox. Now I’ll run get some batteries for my Mic.

Cool findings, thanx to Peace Howlett and Xaden Kjeller!

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