[Gwc-general] ALSA Patch (Not prefect but it does build and play).

[James T. <ja...@ta...>]

Hi, I'm back (sort of). I've just been building gwc 0.19-10. Since I use
(and have done for a long time) the ALSA sound drivers, I used
--enable-alsa. However with the current ALSA library (1.0.2), there are a
couple of API changes which prevented gwc from building and a further one
that caused it to crash on playback. The attached patch should fix these
problems, although on starting playback I get a warning about changing
from 0 to 44100 sampling rate (this could be an effect of the slightly odd
nature of ice1712-based hardware).

I also notice a couple of bugs that I've not had a chance to chase up on:
1) Attempting to open an empty (header only) wav file causes an infinite
(where inf > 10) sequence of open error dialogues.
2) Possibly a feature rather than a bug, but changing to a different
virtual desktop causes playback to cease with a slew of broken pipe
errors.

James

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