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Support => Linux Specific Issues => Topic started by: Meranor on September 15, 2006, 09:00:50 pm

Title: [solved] No sound with Client 0.3.016 on SuSE 10.0 with alsa-1.0.12-0.pm.0
Post by: Meranor on September 15, 2006, 09:00:50 pm

Hi!

Just discovered, that the PlaneShift sound system stopped working on my system (see above). It's caused by the fact that the Linux client comes with its own 1.0.11 (!=1.0.12) version of ALSA. The error message I get is:

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DEBUG: Sound System Software Renderer Initializing...
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:224:(make_local_socket) connect failed: �Z/tmp/alsa-dmix-7347-1158337114-512350: Directory or file not found
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:894:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client

Please note the very strange characters before "/tmp/alsa-dmix..."! Looks like a binary incompatibility...

Solution:
Remove the offending files "libs/libasound.so.*" in the PlaneShift directory.

Honestly speaking, I find it questionable to deliver such system libraries with the client. Is there a convincing reason?

Cheers,

Meranor's guiding spirit

Title: Re: [solved] No sound with Client 0.3.016 on SuSE 10.0 with alsa-1.0.12-0.pm.0
Post by: Bereror on September 15, 2006, 09:20:48 pm

Quote

Honestly speaking, I find it questionable to deliver such system libraries with the client. Is there a convincing reason?

The main reason is to stop people complaining that libraries are not delivered with the system ;)

Title: Re: [solved] No sound with Client 0.3.016 on SuSE 10.0 with alsa-1.0.12-0.pm.0
Post by: Meranor on September 17, 2006, 01:21:26 am

Quote from: Bereror on September 15, 2006, 09:20:48 pm

The main reason is to stop people complaining that libraries are not delivered with the system ;)

Ok, but could the installer maybe check, if an appropriate version is already installed? And only if not, download and install the other version?

Meranor

Title: Re: [solved] No sound with Client 0.3.016 on SuSE 10.0 with alsa-1.0.12-0.pm.0
Post by: Xordan on September 17, 2006, 03:38:59 am

Possible. I'll take a look.

Title: Re: [solved] No sound with Client 0.3.016 on SuSE 10.0 with alsa-1.0.12-0.pm.0
Post by: fozner on September 19, 2006, 04:53:14 am

Hmm well sound worked ok when I first downloaded it on Fedora Core 5_64, then I got an update and sound didn't work for a while.  Sound worked again on update 0.3.016 and I'm getting another update now but the client is very slow to download.  Maybe it's busy today.  Will post back if sound quits working again.

Edit: Sound works but it peters out after a while. Not sure why yet.

Title: Re: [solved] No sound with Client 0.3.016 on SuSE 10.0 with alsa-1.0.12-0.pm.0
Post by: Xordan on September 19, 2006, 01:10:33 pm

Remember to run fixlibs.sh after updating.

Title: Re: [solved] No sound with Client 0.3.016 on SuSE 10.0 with alsa-1.0.12-0.pm.0
Post by: Meranor on September 19, 2006, 07:21:37 pm

Quote from: Xordan on September 19, 2006, 01:10:33 pm

Remember to run fixlibs.sh after updating.

Are you sure? The fixlibs.sh script has been moved away into 'moved/' by the last update...
I'd have read this as "Donot use anymore"...

Meranor

Title: Re: [solved] No sound with Client 0.3.016 on SuSE 10.0 with alsa-1.0.12-0.pm.0
Post by: Xordan on September 19, 2006, 08:32:46 pm

I'm sure. It should be downloaded by the updater.... try updating again.