Gizmo on the XO
I had long thought of trying to get the Gizmo Project working on my XO Laptop and finally decided to give it a try. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was.
First I downloaded the RPM off of Gizmo's website. Since the XO doesn't quite handle files the same way a normal computer does, don't worry about where it's being saved just yet.
The Gizmo site says that it needs four libraries:
- GTK+ 2.6 or higher
- GConf2
- libstdc++ (v6)
- ALSA
As far as I know, all of those are installed except the gtk. I just opened a terminal, ran sudo su - and then ran yum install gtk+ to get that installed.
Now stay in that terminal as root and find the gizmo rpm in your /tmp folder. It'll probably be the only file in there with .rpm on the end, but will be a collection of random letters and numbers, like 23848qf84f8qwjef8jhf4.rpm. Find that file and run yum --nogpgcheck install /tmp/23848qf84f8qwjef8jhf4.rpm.
Now close that terminal and open another one and type gizmo. It might complain about some stuff but just the first time. Now you've got some gizmo on your XO!
There are a few UI problems, no windowing in Sugar, if you open the preferences you'll need to go to the local view and stop the pref pane from there (it's save fine).
I am able to use my Logitech USB headset with it and it runs great. I don't think I'll be able to do much else with the laptop, like browse, while I'm on the call and I don't know how long the battery will last (it doesn't last long as it is), but I plan on trying all of that out soon.
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