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Linux Forever

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Registered: 2015-10-15

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Sound issues with my emulators.

Ever since I installed Slitaz 5.0 RC3 all the emulators are stuck on Mute no matter what,and other emulators (like ZSNES) say sound is enabled but ther's no sound output.

Also can someone help on this

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/n64-for-slitaz

thanks.

llev

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Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

Re: Sound issues with my emulators.

Aside from emulators, do you have sound working?

You can try with one of the numerous players available, e.g. alsaplayer, vlc...

Run alsamixer (from package alsa-utils) and check level and mute state of both Master and PCM channels.

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Re: Sound issues with my emulators.

The sound levels are :

[c]┌──────────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.0.27.2 ─────────────────────────────┐
│ Card: Intel ICH5                                     F1:  Help               │
│ Chip: Realtek ALC655 rev 1                           F2:  System information │
│ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture  F5: All             F6:  Select sound card  │
│ Item: Master [dB gain: 0.00, 0.00]                   Esc: Exit               │
│                                                                              │
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└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘[/c]
and besides emulators sound is working fine everywhere else.

llev

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Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

Re: Sound issues with my emulators.

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1) is there a setting in your emulators to select an output channel? It should be "Intel ICH5" or maybe "alsa" or so.

2) do you have pulseaudio package? I've read it may interfere with alsa (or maybe you have to install it? constructive interference ;-D )

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Registered: 2015-10-15

Posts: 55

Re: Sound issues with my emulators.

1) I do NOT have this pulseaudio thing.

2)Emulator settings

VBA Sound config

o Off (this is always checked no matter what)

o Mute

o On

---------------------------------

o Echo

o Low pass filter

o Reverse Stereo

---------------------------------

o Channel 1

o Channel 2

o Channel 3

o Channel 4

o Channel A

o Channel B (All checked)

------------------------------

o 11 Khz

o 22 Khz(Checked)

o 44 Khz

---------------

Volume > o 25%

         o 50%

         o 100%(Checked)

         o 200%

         o 300%

         o 400%

Gens/GS Sound Config

o Enable(checked)

--------------------------

Rate                > o 11,025 Hz

                      o 22,050 Hz(Checked)

o Stereo (Checked)    o 44,100 Hz

----------------------------------------------

o Z80(Checked)

-----------------

o YM2612

o YM2612 improved

o DAC

o PSG

o PSG(Sine Wave)

o PCM

o PWM

o CDDA(CD Audio)

-------------------

Start WAV Dump (Grey)

Start GYM Dump (Grey)

Everything Else:

(also,PCSX does not work or I don't have any games to play in it rather).

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lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: Sound issues with my emulators.

I tried to run gba rom using visual boy advanced emulator. All works but sound...

Now I off home, and can't try next advice:

Try setting SDL_AUDIODRIVER=waveout (or you can use =dsound).

From here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24825274/no-sound-when-using-sdl-mixer

lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: Sound issues with my emulators.

Our libsdl package was compiled without alsa support. So, environment variable can't help in any manner.

New packages can be grabbed right now from here:

http://cook.slitaz.org/cooker.cgi?download=libsdl-1.2.14.tazpkg

http://cook.slitaz.org/cooker.cgi?download=libsdl-mixer-1.2.11.tazpkg

(they will be on mirror tomorrow, and will be available for update using "tazpkg recharge", "tazpkg up".)

Now sound is played in my Visualboyadvance. But I found that it eats too much CPU (~70%), and sound is jerky (until I set 9 frames drop). And I remember that early it was better, on SliTaz-4 (or even 3), but I don't know how to cope with it.

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Registered: 2015-10-15

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Re: Sound issues with my emulators.

Same here and it just gives me a headache and zsnes just crashes when I try to open it(noooooo!!!!!)Gens/GS still doesn't output sound but at least FCEUX output's sound completely fine.