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Bug 3001

Summary: No sound In Chromium
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: david mattatall <davidsmind>
Component: [OLD] GamesAssignee: Dan Armak (RETIRED) <danarmak>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: davidsmind
Priority: High    
Version: 1.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Description david mattatall 2002-05-24 19:02:03 UTC
I have compiled Chromium with openal and sdl-sound installed and I still get the following message when starting Chromium, The game works fine, but with no sound.  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! ATTENTION !! - one or more errors were encountered during audio check. !!                Audio will be disabled. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment 1 Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-05-28 15:21:58 UTC
Please copy the complete output of chromium, so that I can get some context. 
Also, try running chromium-setup and configuring sound from there. 
Do other sdl apps work with sound? 
Do you use arts or esd? 
Comment 2 Matt Keadle 2002-05-29 01:53:05 UTC
In the src_compile() section of the Chromium ebuild, the $myconf variable is
built, but never used. The line:

     ./configure || die

Shoudl be changed to:

    econf ${myconf} || die

Without $myconf, SDL and vorbis never make it into the program.
Comment 3 Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-05-29 14:26:47 UTC
Um, yes, that was an oversight :-) fixed now on cvs.  So, does this fix fix your problem? Also, please run chromium-setup and (1) note the console output (2) click on 'openal' in the music/playlist tab and check for any strange output or errors.  Finally, another idea - in the chromium output you sent me you had an audiocd enabled as music. Maybe if you remove it'll help?  
Comment 4 Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-07-06 09:33:05 UTC
No reply --> I presume this is fixed. 
Comment 5 EJ Finneran 2003-10-26 09:56:42 UTC
I also had this problem, but that ebuild change didn't help.  I found a posting
on the forums that says if you have the openal package merged, it breaks
Chromiums internal openal or something to that effect.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15428

Once I unmerged openal and remerged Chromium everything worked fine. 
Unfortunatly some other games required openal so this is just a temporary
fix.