Sound initialization fails for Linux verions buid from source
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VICE puts its reason for that failure in its log. What is displayed there just before the above message pops up?
Here is the output I get from the terminal when I launch the x64 executable:
user@debian:~$ *** VICE Version 2.4 ***
OS compiled for: Linux
GUI compiled for: NATIVE
CPU compiled for: AMD64/x86_64
Compiler used: GCC-4.7.2
Current OS: *nix
Current CPU: Intel Pentium Pro/II/III/Celeron/Core/Core 2/Atom
Welcome to x64, the free portable C64 Emulator.
Current VICE team members:
D. Lem, A. Matthies, M. Pottendorfer, S. Trikaliotis, M. van den Heuvel,
C. Vogelgsang, F. Gennari, D. Kahlin, A. Lankila, Groepaz, I. Korb,
E. Smith, O. Seibert, M. Sutton, U. Schulz, S. Haubenthal, T. Giesel,
K. Zsolt.
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X11: Found 24bit/TrueColor visual.
X11: Using private colormap.
Loading system file
/usr/local/lib/vice/C64/kernal'. C64MEM: Kernal rev #3. Loading system file/usr/local/lib/vice/C64/basic'.Loading system file
/usr/local/lib/vice/C64/chargen'. MPS-803: Error - Could not load MPS-803 charset 'mps803'. MPS-803: Error - Cannot load palette filemps803.vpl'.NL10: Error - Could not load NL-10 ROM file 'nl10-cbm'.
Loading system file
/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1541'. IECDriveROM: Warning - Unknown 1541 ROM image. Sum: 1988651. Loading system file/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES/d1541II'.IECDriveROM: Error - 1570 ROM image not found. Hardware-level 1570 emulation is not available.
Loading system file
/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1571'. Loading system file/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1581'.IECDriveROM: Error - 2000 ROM image not found. Hardware-level 2000 emulation is not available.
IECDriveROM: Error - 4000 ROM image not found. Hardware-level 4000 emulation is not available.
Loading system file
/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos2031'. Loading system file/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos2040'.Loading system file
/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos3040'. Loading system file/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos4040'.Loading system file
/usr/local/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1001'. Drive: Finished loading ROM images. Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion X11Video: Successfully initialized (768x544), using shared memory. Sound: Available sound devices: uss dummy fs dump wav voc iff aiff soundmovie Keyboard: Error - Cannot load keymapx11_sym.vkm'.Joystick: Linux joystick interface initialization...
Joystick: Warning - Cannot open joystick device
/dev/input/js0'. Joystick: Warning - Cannot open joystick device/dev/input/js1'.Joystick: Warning - Cannot open joystick device
/dev/input/js2'. Joystick: Warning - Cannot open joystick device/dev/input/js3'.Joystick: Warning - Cannot open joystick device
/dev/input/js4'. Joystick: Warning - Cannot open joystick device/dev/input/js5'.Main CPU: starting at ($FFFC).
Main CPU: RESET.
Did not find any uss device
mmmh maybe a dumb question, but are you sure you have USS? i'd expect most distros to use ALSA or pulseaudio ...
please retest with current trunk, it will try to initialize in this order now:
pulse->alsa->uss->sdl
please reopen if the problem persists
I compiled the trunk on 2014-10-25 on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I only get the following sound device:
Sound: Available sound devices: uss dummy fs dump wav voc iff aiff soundmovie
Pulse is not getting detected. I do not have any sound playing.
Last edit: Hans Deragon 2014-10-26
I confirm that this is fixed in the trunk as of 2014-12-21 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Thar. I did had to install the 'libpulse-dev' package first to get it running. Sound works marvelously now.
Could we configure 'configure.ac' to install the 'libpulse-dev' using apt if the OS detected is Ubuntu? Could maybe include Debian too.