Debian Lenny and Bmax sounds.
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| Hi, I'm trying to give a last chance to my dear old Acer TM 611TVX, nowadays too slow to run whatever Windows flavor, in order to have a light and tight machine, mainly aimed at BMax coding. So, I've chosen the latest Debian 5.0.4 distro, codenamed 'Lenny'. I struggled a little to get a fully working env under Gnome, with a 1024x768x16 desktop, enabling all sounds for every single application and system feature. I've also installed BMax, with related dependencies (thanks a lot for the priceless script you published on this board). Everything is working as expected but I have some problem with sounds coming from Max: no sound is emitted. I'm looking for modules regarding freeaudio and openAL stuff. Regarding openAL, from Synaptic, I have entries for libopenal.so.1.4.272 and libopenal.so.1 What about freeaudio? I cannot retrieve any reference about it. I clearly miss something, but what? :-) Can you help me? |
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| I think there is a clash with the pulse audio stuff the Ubuntu (so presumably debian too?) uses by default. On ubuntu at least you can get around it by either killing pulse or quitting other aps that make sounds. Cheers Charlie |
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| Thanks for your reply. I did this way: debbie:/# apt-get remove pulseaudio Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso... Fatto Generazione dell'albero delle dipendenze in corso Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto Il pacchetto pulseaudio non è installato, quindi non è stato rimosso 0 aggiornati, 0 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati. debbie:/# more /etc/libao.conf default_driver=alsa It's Italian, but simply means there's no pulseaudio stuff to remove at all. :) I'm sure I'm running alsa+esound stuff. I have a perfect dev environment for bmax. All but sound... What could I try? :) Thanks again. ;) |
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| Btw, Arch Linux would be even better choice, it's a bit lighter (if you build it that way). |
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| With my big surprise, I obtained to let things work! I've simply replaced esound with the www-community so hated pulseaudio. With Synaptic, I downloaded and installed the freeaudio 0.9.10-3+lenny1 package. Well, it works without any delay/click/echo and, as a side effect, it has even solved my mic troubles with skype! Bingo! Simply perfect! ^__^ Although I'll give anyway Arch and Kubuntu a test drive, I love this Debian distro so much to suggest it for low-end hardware. Thanks for your help. |
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| I am trying to solve similar problem (no sound in BMX) on Ubuntu 10.10. I wanted to try freeaudio solution posted above but my Synaptic doesn't find anything under freeaudio :( |
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| Here openAL works on Ubuntu 10.04, didn't try 10.10. |
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| I'm still using ubuntu 9.04 so can't test but have you got alsa-oss? http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/alsa-oss Last edited 2010 |
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| This is the solution of sounds with alsa http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=92540 without remove the pulseaudio. |
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