internal structures and 32/64bit compatibility

internal structures and 32/64bit compatibility

[Tomas Carnecky]

I'm running gentoo on amd64 with the compat libs installes 
(emul-linux-x86-soundlibs). I'm seeing some strange things that make me 
think that either the internal structures have changed during the last 
few versions or that they aren't 32/64bit compatible.

I have a 64bit mplayer and 32bit wine which I use to play World of 
Warcraft. When I start mplayer to play a sound file, it works fine, I 
even can start a second mplayer and I can hear both sounds. Now when I 
start wine, I get this:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:788:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC shm 
instance

The other way around, when I start wine first, the in-game sound works 
fine. When I start mplayer later I get this:
mplayer: pcm_params.c:187: snd_pcm_hw_param_get_min: Assertion 
`!snd_interval_empty(i)' failed.

Looks like they (the 32 and 64bit libraries) don't understand each 
other. As I can't compile the 32bit libs on my own, they are precompiled 
by the gentoo staff, I don't know which version they are, but the 64bit 
alsa-lib has version 1.0.10.

Can someone explain whet is going on here?

I've tried to compile my own 32bit alsa-oss to test why teamspeak fails, 
but libtool keeps using absolute paths (/usr/lib/libasound.so) but the 
32bit libs are located in /usr/lib32, and I have no clue how to convince 
libtool to use "-lasound" instead of the absolete path. And I guess 
alsa-lib will be equally hard to compile for 32bit so I didn't even try it.

How can I compile alsa-lib for 32bit ?

thanks
tom


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Re: internal structures and 32/64bit compatibility

[Tomas Carnecky]

Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Looks like they (the 32 and 64bit libraries) don't understand each 
> other. As I can't compile the 32bit libs on my own, they are precompiled 
> by the gentoo staff, I don't know which version they are, but the 64bit 
> alsa-lib has version 1.0.10.

... they should update their packages ;)


> I've tried to compile my own 32bit alsa-oss to test why teamspeak fails, 
> but libtool keeps using absolute paths (/usr/lib/libasound.so) but the 
> 32bit libs are located in /usr/lib32, and I have no clue how to convince 
> libtool to use "-lasound" instead of the absolete path. And I guess 
> alsa-lib will be equally hard to compile for 32bit so I didn't even try it.
> 
> How can I compile alsa-lib for 32bit ?
> 

was easier that I've expected:

./configure --prefix=~/root LDFLAGS="-L/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib -m32" 
CFLAGS="-L/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib -m32"

and the package compiled without errors, copied the library to the lib32 
path and now I can play WoW and listen to music !

but the aoss wrapper library (version 1.0.10) still fails:

$ ALSA_OSS_DEBUG=1 LD_PRELOAD=/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 
TeamSpeak
ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0' from 
LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Opened PCM dsp0 for stream 0 (result = -2)
Opened PCM default for stream 0 (result = 0)
Opened PCM default for stream 1 (result = 0)
open("/dev/dsp", 2, 0) -> 18
ioctl(18, SNDCTL_DSP_RESET)
ioctl(18, SNDCTL_DSP_SETDUPLEX)
ioctl(18, SNDCTL_DSP_GETCAPS, 0x590e9168) -> [13056]
ioctl(18, SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT, 0x590e916c[3000c])
dsp ioctl error = -22
close(18) -> 0
$

Maybe a bug in TeamSpeak itself, not initializing the device properly, 
but it works fine under native oss. I even tracked down the file and 
line on which it fails (posted to the alsa-user mailing list). So if 
someone has a clue how to fix this I'd be more than happy to test it.

Just commenting out the function call didn't help, so that call seems to 
be important for the device initialization. Seems like the function 
arguments ate calculated wrong, but I'm not a sound expert and I don't 
know what the valid fucntiion arguments are.

tom


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Re: internal structures and 32/64bit compatibility

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:12:26 +0000,
Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> 
> but the aoss wrapper library (version 1.0.10) still fails:
> 
> $ ALSA_OSS_DEBUG=1 LD_PRELOAD=/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 
> TeamSpeak
> ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0' from 
> LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Do you really have this shlib file?


Takashi


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Re: internal structures and 32/64bit compatibility

[Tomas Carnecky]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:12:26 +0000,
> Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> 
>>but the aoss wrapper library (version 1.0.10) still fails:
>>
>>$ ALSA_OSS_DEBUG=1 LD_PRELOAD=/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 
>>TeamSpeak
>>ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0' from 
>>LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
> 
> 
> Do you really have this shlib file?
> 
> 

if alsa does some output, then the library was preloaded, if the preload 
would fail, I wouldn't see any output I guess.

And I really hope that the tab-completition in bash is working, too :)

tom


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Re: internal structures and 32/64bit compatibility

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:59:08 +0000,
Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:12:26 +0000,
> > Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> > 
> >>but the aoss wrapper library (version 1.0.10) still fails:
> >>
> >>$ ALSA_OSS_DEBUG=1 LD_PRELOAD=/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 
> >>TeamSpeak
> >>ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0' from 
> >>LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
> > 
> > 
> > Do you really have this shlib file?
> > 
> > 
> 
> if alsa does some output, then the library was preloaded, if the preload 
> would fail, I wouldn't see any output I guess.

Right, but still I'm wondering how it did work.  Maybe you have
another libaoss and it was loaded instead of the above?


Takashi


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Re: internal structures and 32/64bit compatibility

[Tomas Carnecky]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:59:08 +0000,
> Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> 
>>Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>
>>>At Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:12:26 +0000,
>>>Tomas Carnecky wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>but the aoss wrapper library (version 1.0.10) still fails:
>>>>
>>>>$ ALSA_OSS_DEBUG=1 LD_PRELOAD=/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 
>>>>TeamSpeak
>>>>ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0' from 
>>>>LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
>>>
>>>
>>>Do you really have this shlib file?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>if alsa does some output, then the library was preloaded, if the preload 
>>would fail, I wouldn't see any output I guess.
> 
> 
> Right, but still I'm wondering how it did work.  Maybe you have
> another libaoss and it was loaded instead of the above?
> 
> 

if I do:

LD_PRELOAD=./mylib.so wine /games/World.of.Warcraft/WoW.exe

it also prints that 'can't preload' message, but if I supply the full 
path to the library, it doesn't print that anymore. But since I've 
supplied the full path to LD_PRELOAD, I have no clue what might cause 
this error.

After I've changed some parts of libaoss.so it started to work, I had to 
comment out one function call, replace a return value in another place 
and add two function calls to the snd_pcm_read/write functions.

What I've done is described here: 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_and_TeamSpeak_on_amd64

read the section 'compile patched alsa-oss' to find out what exactly 
I've changed.

tom


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