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Re: [Gwc-general] Anyone still using GWC?
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From: John C. <jo...@in...> - 2021-03-08 18:50:38
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Some progress and success today. And it may have been a poor choice of OSS emulation on my part that caused this. It appears that the osspd modules for simulating oss with alsa was causing the frozen cursor issue. After removing osspd and installing oss-compat, all is back as it was. Cursor works fine. I think I changed this about a month ago, not knowing which one was right, but didn't use GWC afterward so didn't know I broke it. There are several choices to get oss compatibility, and that is the problem I had. Before this, I used to have to modprobe snd-pcm-oss to get a /dev/dsp but now alsa supplies up to three different ways to get /dev/dsp. I chose the wrong one. I can live with this, as I have been all along but it would be nicer if I could get GWC to work with ALSA. I have never found the correct ALSA syntax to put in the audio device bar (in place of /dev/dsp). I know that my sound card is an Ensoniq AudioPCI (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev 4) also known as ES1371. When I looked to see how Audacity calls this card, they put the entire name of the card and then at the end in parenthesis it says (hw:0,1). So I've tried putting those numbers in the audio device bar of GWC, and every other choice from hw:0,0 to 2,2 and plughw:0,0 to 2,2, also things like default, front, rear, and whatever else aplay -L listed as devices. So far, no luck. It always posts an error message "failed to open OSS audio device ..." Alsa would be better because as it is, if I use any other sound device at the same time as using GWC with /dev/dsp, the other device blocks gwc (such as using netflix on firefox). If you have any suggestions to get Alsa syntax correct on the GWC settings bar that would be great, but otherwise I can live with oss-compat. I have never liked Pulseaudio. For some reason it breaks KMIX and there's no way to select the desired input channel. Pulse's own mixer panel does not work for me. It says I selected line in, for example, but no sound is heard. So I always disable Pulse and use Alsa. Hope I was not too wordy. I can summarize if needed. I don't like leaving out what might be a crucial piece of info. Thanks, John On 3/8/21 3:13 AM, Alister Hood wrote: > If audio playback works in other programs, sure, maybe something > could be tweaked on your system to make it work, but it may well > indicate something that should be fixed in GWC too. > I'm pretty confident it will be audio related, not graphics, so > there's a pretty good chance it will work fine if you try compiling > with a different audio backend. The default is alsa - run `make > clean` first and configure with --disable-alsa to use oss, and > --enable-pa to use pulseaudio. > > > On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 20:18, John Cirillo <jo...@in... > <mailto:jo...@in...>> wrote: > > Follow-up note. I downloaded both your update and Jeff's on > github, built both versions. They both compiled fine and ran. > Audio works, if that was ever an issue. But the cursor is still > frozen. If I don't highlight an area, there is no apparent > cursor. If I highlight some data, the cursor appears on the left, > and just as I hit play, you can see the cursor start moving and > then stop. The music continues to play. > I don't think this is a GWC problem but a symptom of something > else. I am going to go about my business trying other programs in > the next day or so, and see if there are any other weird video > issues. > If it was a system update, it might go away with the next update > and we'll never know what it was. If I get desperate I may try > reinstalling Buster from the latest release, or reinstalling my > earlier iso to see if the problem goes away. Very strange. > > On 3/8/21 2:00 AM, John Cirillo wrote: >> Hello Alister, >> Wonderful to know you're still out there. The list has been very >> quiet. >> >> My latest install of Buster was probably done in December of >> 2020. I had been running Jessie up until then, but finally it >> had to go. >> I normally use either the "GTK Wave Cleaner" package provided by >> Debian 10 (version 22 with no suffix shown) or my still-favorite >> version of 0.21-18. Last time I used either was about a month >> ago and things seemed normal. >> I didn't use it again until yesterday and that was when I noticed >> this oddity. Everything seems to work, but the scrolling cursor >> bar doesn't appear or if/when I highlight an area and hit play, >> the bar stays at the beginning of the highlight area. I did a >> full reboot to make sure nothing was locked up, which didn't >> help. I downloaded the latest version from sourceforge >> (0.22-4) and it compiled fine. I ran that version too, and it >> also has this cursor problem. So the same issue exists whether >> using 0.21-18, 0.22, or 0.22-4. Something changed within the >> last few weeks but what? Video driver? I am using Nouveau. I >> always use Nouveau as long as it plays nice with Netflix. I had >> the proprietary Nvidia drivers a few years ago but there was some >> issue and I went back to the free Nouveau package. >> >> I just now fired up Audacity to test it, and the cursor moves OK >> on that one. I know it's apples to oranges but it was easy to >> try. I don't prefer Audacity for anything besides recording. >> So that's where I am with this. I don't think the issue is with >> GWC at all, but something changed in a system file that doesn't >> play nicely with that cursor. >> >> I am willing to try the 2021 cleanup version to see what happens. >> >> >> On 3/8/21 1:27 AM, Alister Hood wrote: >>> Hi John, >>> There are certainly still people using gwc, and there has even >>> been a small burst of development recently (no release yet). >>> No, the mailing list hasn't moved. >>> >>> Are you running the gwc package Debian provides for Buster? I >>> see Buster was updated recently, so I guess that is when your >>> problem started? >>> >>> Are you able to compile from source instead? I doubt the latest >>> release will behave any differently, but Jeff has a go at >>> reworking the playback code this year, so I'd be interested to >>> know whether the master branch on github (where I have merged >>> the first half of his work), or Jeff's working branch at >>> https://github.com/weltyj/gwc/tree/gwc_cleanup_2021 >>> <https://github.com/weltyj/gwc/tree/gwc_cleanup_2021> behave >>> better. In the systems I test on they have fixed various issues >>> like this. But unfortunately someone else reported at >>> https://github.com/AlisterH/gwc/issues/24 >>> <https://github.com/AlisterH/gwc/issues/24> that they break >>> playback on his system. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Alister >>> >>> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 19:01, John Cirillo >>> <jo...@in... <mailto:jo...@in...>> wrote: >>> >>> Is this still the mailing list for Gnome Wave Cleaner, or >>> has it moved >>> and I missed it? >>> I've been using it all along but now am having issues with >>> the cursor >>> not moving along with the music playing. >>> Debian Buster 64 bit. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gwc-general mailing list >>> Gwc...@li... >>> <mailto:Gwc...@li...> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwc-general >>> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwc-general> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gwc-general mailing list >>> Gwc...@li... <mailto:Gwc...@li...> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwc-general <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwc-general> >> > |
