I'd say it's pretty strange that the vm-sound-ALSA needs almost nothing...
>From the code I'd think It'd need to bind against asound [1], as the squeak
vm says in
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2
(0x00007f3c507ba000)
[1]
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharovm/blob/master/platforms/unix/vm-sound-ALSA/sqUnixSoundALSA.c#L34
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:37 PM, J.F. Rick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks. When trying to load the ALSA sound, stderr just reports "could not
> find module vm-sound-ALSA".
>
> Doing an ldd on the vm-sound-ALSA.so included with the Pharo VM, I get:
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf76e9000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf7515000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf76ea000)
> Doing an ldd on the vm-sound-ALSA.so included with the Squeak VM, I get:
> linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffbdbfe000)
> libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2
> (0x00007f3c507ba000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f3c503f3000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f3c500ee000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f3c4feea000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
> (0x00007f3c4fccd000)
> librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f3c4fac4000)
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f3c50cca000)
> There doesn't seem to be anything clearly missing.
>
> Doing an ldd on the vm-sound-pulse.so included with the Squeak VM, I get:
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf7721000)
> libpulse-simple.so.0 => not found
> libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf754f000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7722000)
>
> I did try to install the libpulse package (apt-get install libpulse-dev)
> but that file is still missing.
>
> Weirdly enough, doing an ldd on the vm-sound-null.so included with Pharo,
> I get:
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf774c000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf757c000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf774d000)
> which is the exact same thing as for vm-sound-ALSA.so. So, I would imagine
> that if the one worked than the other would.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Guillermo Polito <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> If the modules are not printed, that probably means that they cannot be
>> loaded :). (Bah, I assume that by looking at the vm code that does that
>> [1]).
>> So, first thing you can do is to see the output of stderr. Second, you
>> can try to do an ldd [2] to the vm-sound-ALSA.so library to check the
>> dependencies and try to get them installed via ap-tget.
>>
>> Keep us informed :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Guille
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharovm/blob/e4ccdb38e01578e3569c9c42d2199682584772ec/platforms/unix/vm/sqUnixMain.c#L965
>> [2] http://man.yolinux.com/cgi-bin/man2html?cgi_command=ldd
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 4, 2013, at 11:22 AM, J.F. Rick <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hmm. Did this get sent or was it filtered? It doesn't seem to be in my
>>> inbox for the pharo-dev list.
>>>
>>>
>>> It arrived…
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:03 PM, J.F. Rick <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm using Pharo 2.0 on Ubuntu 13.10 and I can't seem to get sound
>>>> working. Getting sound to work on Linux seems to be a common problem. While
>>>> I've checked the archive for solutions, none of them work for me. I've
>>>> investigated a bit and here's what I've found:
>>>>
>>>> Inside of the /usr/lib/pharo-vm directory, I see the following:
>>>> vm-sound-ALSA.so
>>>> vm-sound-null.so
>>>> vm-sound-pulse.so (I added that based on an archive post that this
>>>> would work)
>>>>
>>>> When I do "pharo -vm-sound-null pharo.image", it works correctly.
>>>> When I do "pharo -vm-sound-ALSA pharo.image", it gives me an error that
>>>> "could not find module vm-sound-ALSA".
>>>>
>>>> When I do "pharo-help", I find that the only sound driver available is
>>>> "vm-sound-null", though the others are clearly there in the directory. Is
>>>> there anything I can do to make the VM acknowledge that the other files are
>>>> there?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D.
>>>> http://www.je77.com/
>>>> Skype ID: jochenrick
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D.
>>> http://www.je77.com/
>>> Skype ID: jochenrick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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> Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D.
> http://www.je77.com/
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