Today I had some problems with using Pidgin for Google Talk.  I was getting weird errors like “read error”.  I don’t think it’s a Pidgin problem because that package hasn’t been updated recently.

Anyway I search around for a bit and found this solution: http://www.manast.com/2007/05/11/how-to-configure-pidgin-to-work-with-google-talk/

Scroll to the bottom of the post and read the update.