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Bug 84172 - esd just makes noises
esd just makes noises
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: esound
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
0.2.26
Other other
: Urgent major
: ---
Assigned To: Esound Maintainers
Luis Villa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-04 20:45 UTC by Damon Chaplin
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Damon Chaplin 2002-06-04 20:45:06 UTC 
On my Solaris 8 machine esd just makes noises rather than play proper
sounds. Even just starting it it outputs noise instead of the normal
startup beeps.

I don't know if this is a sample rate/sound mode problem or what.
The Solaris 'play' command can play wavs OK.

Let me know what I can do to debug it.
Comment 1 Santiago Otero 2002-06-04 22:54:55 UTC 
Can you tell what sound driver are you using? Try running esd from
command line and send output.
Comment 2 Damon Chaplin 2002-06-05 17:56:53 UTC 
I think it is audio_solaris.c, since it outputs 'speaker, headphone,
lineout' as possible devices. That would be expected, since it is on
Solaris 8.
Comment 3 Damon Chaplin 2002-06-05 20:00:23 UTC 
I should add I'm using 64-bit packages. That could possibly be causing
problems - I noticed esound tends to use things like sizeof(unsigned
short). I hope these all work when the sizes of these types changes.
Comment 4 Frederic Crozat 2002-06-06 05:14:07 UTC 
I think it will be hard to fix this problem since a lot of people
(including me) don't have Sun/Solaris workstations :((

Could you try CVS version of esound (there are several fixes inside
but nothing Solaris related..) ?

Any way to get some Sun folks to check this bug ?
Comment 5 Luis Villa 2002-06-06 06:53:59 UTC 
Marking this urgent and cc'ing wipro and sun because it blocks testing
of any sun stuff on solaris. Any testing and feedback (and of course
fixes) that Sun and Wipro can provide will be most useful to testing
of other components. Hear that, guys? :)
Comment 6 Damon Chaplin 2002-06-06 17:58:00 UTC 
I'm using our CVS snapshots for Solaris, from about 1 week ago.
Comment 7 Damon Chaplin 2002-06-06 18:02:56 UTC 
Oh, it's an Ultra 10, by the way.
Comment 8 Santiago Otero 2002-06-06 23:56:00 UTC 
Have you got a little endian sound card? I think that esound fails to
work on big endians machines with little endian sound chips. I am not
sure.
Comment 9 Damon Chaplin 2002-06-07 17:09:58 UTC 
I have no idea. Is there any way of testing for it?

Hopefully the Sun people will know.
Comment 10 Santiago Otero 2002-06-07 17:55:48 UTC 
Try running esound in 8 bit mode ( esd -b) and see if it works.
Comment 11 Damon Chaplin 2002-06-07 18:08:37 UTC 
Ah, no. I tried that and it didn't work. Still just noise.
Comment 12 Bharat Tewari 2002-06-20 14:03:25 UTC 
does it work with 32-bit esd, if thats the case then it should be 
definitely 64-bit problem. over here at Wipro, we have not tested on 
64-bit mode but in 32-bit mode it works fine.
Comment 13 Frederic Crozat 2002-07-03 07:46:32 UTC 
Oops, closed the wrong bug..

Reopeing
Comment 14 Frederic Crozat 2002-07-03 07:47:00 UTC 
Oops, closed the wrong bug..

Reopening
Comment 15 Shane O'Connor 2002-07-15 14:22:30 UTC 
i tested sounds on solaris 8, ultra 10 and they work fine - see bug
#84774
Comment 16 Luis Villa 2002-07-16 19:44:27 UTC 
Closing, then.