HOWTO: Joost (with sound)

[efrincu]

Excellent post!

Can I please have an invitation too?

Thanks a lot!

[mkoby]

Oh yea! Finally. Thank you so much. Someone should seriously buy you a case of your favorite beverage for this.

It is working on my desktop, flawlessly.

[alef13]

OK, It really works. I followed all the steps and got Joost up and running.
There's only one problem: after running it on the command line, I can see the initial screen, and the 'Connecting' screen as well, but when the sound starts, the screen goes black forever. I'm sure that it's connected because I can hear the sound of the main Joost channel, the Joost Suggest.
I tought this problem was related with beryl, then I disabled it and ran metacity by hand, but I got the same problem.
Some times, after connecting, I can see the menus, but after few seconds it totally disappear and the screen goes black.
Any ideas?

[Nukeador]

It works!

I have only 2 problems:

1- The sound/video it's a bit crappy, faltering.
2- Mi personal info isn't stored so I have to enter my name and age over and over again when I start Joost.

[philwhln]

Almost worked. Joost was telling me it couldn't detect the soundcard, so I tried a few others. EsounD Driver worked the best. But Joost still crashes with this....

fixme:font:GetCharacterPlacementW flags 0x00000008 ignored
fixme:font:GetCharacterPlacementW flags 0x00000132 ignored
*********************************WARN_ONCE******** *************************
File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 424
Software fallback:ctx->Multisample.Enabled
************************************************** *************************
*********************************WARN_ONCE******** *************************
File radeon_vtxfmt_a.c function r300MapBuffer line 708
Unknown access type
************************************************** *************************

[DoktorSeven]

OK, It really works. I followed all the steps and got Joost up and running.
There's only one problem: after running it on the command line, I can see the initial screen, and the 'Connecting' screen as well, but when the sound starts, the screen goes black forever. I'm sure that it's connected because I can hear the sound of the main Joost channel, the Joost Suggest.
I tought this problem was related with beryl, then I disabled it and ran metacity by hand, but I got the same problem.
Some times, after connecting, I can see the menus, but after few seconds it totally disappear and the screen goes black.
Any ideas?

This is exactly the problem I have running it that I mentioned above. Not sure what the problem is.

[pingpongboss]

wine 0.9.37 source just came out today. Will your directions (and patch files) work for the new version as well?

[mikewitt]

I don't know if it'll work with 0.9.37. I'll try it tonight, and see if it works. (I'll update the tut if it does.)

EDIT:
Ok, after getting on back into Ubuntu (I needed to work with Visual Studio) I found out it's not in the repository yet. It probably will be soon, so I'm testing it now.

ONE MORE TIME:
If you use 0.9.37, DO NOT apply patch1.patch. It won't work (looks like they've added patch to 0.9.37 already). I have yet to find out how this will affect joost (compiling right now), but otherwise it seems the same.

[nhandler]

Well, I've gone through everything but the last step. I now need to get my hands on a joost invite so I can download it. Could anyone send me one (mrcheatr[at]gmail.com)

And is there any way to unapply a patch since patch 1 doesn't work with .9.37?

[mikewitt]

It works with 0.9.37. When that is put in the repository I'll update the instructions. The only difference is that you don't apply patch1.