Audio file open problem on LINUXPPC 1999 solution

Audio file open problem on LINUXPPC 1999 solution

[Stanko Juzbasic]

To whoever it may concern

It seems I found the cause and solution to the LINUXPPC 1999 audio file
open problem I wrote about two days ago:

The problem occurs only if one installs the new LINUXPPC 1999 filesystem
from scratch using the release CD-ROM installer. It has several  bugs,
among which this one:

- it fails to create /dev/dsp (eventhough it creates /dev/dsp1...),
without giving a notice
- default system sound apps have an endianness problem, so they don’t
give a proper
    error message.

The solution is to [MAKEDEV audio] manually and rebuild CCRMA sndlib,
and sound will work perfectly.

Best,

Stanko
.



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Audio file open problem on LINUXPPC 1999 solution

[Jerry Quinn]

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>> "Stanko" == Stanko Juzbasic <stanko.juzbasic@zg.tel.hr> writes:

 Stanko> To whoever it may concern

 Stanko> It seems I found the cause and solution to the LINUXPPC 1999 audio
 Stanko> file open problem I wrote about two days ago:

 Stanko> The problem occurs only if one installs the new LINUXPPC 1999
 Stanko> filesystem from scratch using the release CD-ROM installer. It has
 Stanko> several bugs, among which this one:

 Stanko> - it fails to create /dev/dsp (eventhough it creates /dev/dsp1...),
 Stanko> without giving a notice - default system sound apps have an
 Stanko> endianness problem, so they don’t give a proper error message.

This was a problem I ran into as well.  As an additional note, IIRC doing
something to /dev/sequencer caused /dev/dsp to disappear.  I'm not exactly
sure about the circumstances.  I have to go back and recreate the problem.
But there is definitely something like this going on on my machine.

 Stanko> The solution is to [MAKEDEV audio] manually and rebuild CCRMA sndlib,
 Stanko> and sound will work perfectly.

Can you comment on rebuilding sndlib?  What does that affect?

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Jerry Quinn                             Tel: (514) 761-8737
jquinn@nortelnetworks.com               Fax: (514) 761-8505
Speech Recognition Research


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