Am 04.05.2014 um 11:24 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]>:
> > On 04 May 2014, at 11:20, Andreas Wacknitz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> FWIW under (Open)Solaris sound isn’t working either. >> I only got the first tone then silence (checked it with Squeak 4.6: >> (FMSound lowMajorScaleOn: FMSound pluckedElecBass) play > > linux is a different story, and probably that affects other unixes as well: > the libALSA is being replaced for libpulse (at least in ubuntu boxes) and > that is causing a lot of problems. Now I more or less made ALSA work, but > just part of it and I suppose that happens if the weather is well, etc. etc. > I still have in my todo made a proper port of the ancient pulse support, but > so far… not ready :) > > Esteban > That’s what I hate about Linux: nothing is stable and everybody reinvents everything every now and then. And if the many Linux distributions use the same modules you can be sure that there is a race for the newest version of it. My Solaris VM doesn’t use ALSA. I tried alsa-lib for OpenSolaris from SFE repository but it’s not needed and thus I removed the library. Andreas
