Bug 38396 – sound in gnubg doesn't work on some (all?) big endian machines

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jonathan Nall 2004-01-16 05:13:05 UTC]

gnubg supports esd, artsc, nas, as well as being able to talk to the sound card itself. sadly, it defaults to the last of these. there are a set of ifdef's in sound.c that need to be reordered to choose the "SIGIO" method last. i have to get to work and don't have a patch, but can confirm that this fixed sound for me (i have a G4 powerbook). this problem may be prevalent on other big endian systems (sparc).

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-03-06 17:50:42 UTC]

Not really sure what to do about this bug.  We only support gnubg on x86 currently so this isn't a bug in an existing setup.

[Comment 2 Jonathan Nall 2004-03-06 17:58:06 UTC]

and my comment is that it's quite easy to support more platforms than just x86. merely change the order of the ifdefs. 

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-04-06 00:40:53 UTC]

See if you have any more fun with gnubg-0.14.2 

[Comment 4 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-07-06 01:41:48 UTC]

I'll take a look at this for sparc.

[Comment 5 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-07-12 22:14:06 UTC]

"jus works" fine on sparc.  Defaults to "raw device" for the sound output which I believe is /dev/dsp.  Audio played fine for me.

Added to ~sparc.