Bug#488951: flightgear: problems when no soundcard found

[Andres Mejia]

reassign 488951 flightgear
retitle 488951 flightgear: problems when no soundcard found
thanks

Ok, instead of deleting this bug, I'll reassign it to flightgear.

On Sunday 17 May 2009 05:54:39 Sébastien MARQUE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've now a working soundcard using OSS4.2 (with corrections in
> /etc/openal/alsoft.conf, also reported in bug #527984) I don't have this
> problem anymore.
>
> unloading oss modules using soundoff (from oss-linux package, locally
> built from sources), then launching flightgear I've this error:
>
> AL lib: oss.c:179: Could not open /dev/dsp: No such device or address
> Audio initialization failed!
>     There was an error opening the ALC device
> Oops AL error after audio initialization!
> OpenAL error (AL_ILLEGAL_COMMAND): constructor (alGenBuffers)
> Fatal error: Failed to gen OpenAL buffer.
> AL lib: alBuffer.c:1081: exit(): deleting 1 Buffer(s).
>
> then launch stops. I'm quite sure now that the fatal error comes from
> the flightgear part as other applications don't complain without OSS
> loaded (or not as hardly as flightgear does).
>
> if the goal is to delete this bug from buglist, my think is just go
> ahead, moreover if I'm the only one reporting this in one year soon :D.
>
> thx for the interest
>
> regards
> seb
>
> Andres Mejia a écrit :
> > On Wednesday 02 July 2008 06:34:16 Sébastien MARQUE wrote:
> >> Package: libopenal-dev
> >> Version: 1:1.3.253-5
> >> Severity: important
> >>
> >> I compile FlightGear CVS, libopenal (libopenal-dev) is one of its
> >> dependances. I have not yet succeed to configure my soundcard, so I
> >> haven't the luck to get the sound working.
> >> Until now, when launching FlightGear, I get errors about ALSA and
> >> AL, but it worked fine. Then this morning seeing a new libopenal-dev
> >> version being installed, I recompiled FlightGear CVS, and then it can't
> >> be launched anymore, I get these messages before the program exits:
> >>
> >> AL lib: alsa.c:784: no playback cards found...
> >> AL lib: alsa.c:852: no capture cards found...
> >> ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
> >> snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
> >> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> >> returned error: No such file or directory
> >> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> >> returned error: No such file or directory
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
> >> directory
> >> ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> >> ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
> >> snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
> >> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> >> returned error: No such file or directory
> >> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> >> returned error: No such file or directory
> >> ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
> >> directory
> >> ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> >> AL lib: alsa.c:344: Could not open playback device 'default': No such
> >> file or directory
> >> AL lib: oss.c:179: Could not open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
> >> Audio initialization failed!
> >>     There was an error opening the ALC device
> >>     Oops AL error after audio initialization!
> >>     OpenAL error (AL_ILLEGAL_COMMAND): constructor (alGenBuffers)
> >>     Fatal error: Failed to gen buffer.
> >>     AL lib: alBuffer.c:1097: exit() 1 Buffer(s) NOT deleted
> >>
> >> I know the best solution should be making my soundcard works, but after
> >> monthes trying to do so, I gave up... :/
> >>
> >> -- System Information:
> >> Debian Release: lenny/sid
> >>    APT prefers unstable
> >>    APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> >> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> >>
> >> Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> >> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> >> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> >>
> >> Versions of packages libopenal-dev depends on:
> >> ii  libopenal1                   1:1.3.253-5 Software implementation of
> >> the Ope
> >>
> >> libopenal-dev recommends no packages.
> >>
> >> -- debconf-show failed
> >
> > Hi. Are you still having this problem?

-- 
Regards,
Andres