Bug 313751 – games-rpg/eternal-lands with =media-libs/openal-1.12.854: sounds get truncated

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Martin Erdtmann 2010-04-07 22:05:18 UTC]

When using sound in Eternal Lands, sounds are not played completely but beeing truncated. Downgrade to openal version 1.9.563 fixes the problem. I am a sound developer of this game and going to create some new sounds there. This issue doesnt seem to happen on all sounds. Especially small ones are effected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Eternal lands
2. Enable sounds
3. Listen to the output


Actual Results:  
Sounds are truncated before being finised

Expected Results:  
Sounds are played completely

After downgrade to the last stable version 1.9.563 everything works fine.

[Comment 1 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2010-04-07 23:26:50 UTC]

Martin, please include emerge --info and any other info that may help, thanks

[Comment 2 Martin Erdtmann 2010-04-08 08:23:45 UTC]

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:30:01 +0000                                                        
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dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10                                                                              
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4-r1                                                                             
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3                                                                             
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13                                                                              
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2                                                                               
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1                                                                        
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3                                                   
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3                                                                              
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4                                                                                
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1                                                                               
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b                                                                               
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CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"                                                                              
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"                                                                          
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CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"                                                
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"                                                                                                
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"                                                                                
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"                                                                                  
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"                                                                                     
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"                                                                      
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"                                                                                                 
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PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"                                                                                    
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
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Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 3 Martin Erdtmann 2010-04-08 08:44:03 UTC]

My guess is that this could something to do with buffer sizes because i can see a similar effect in players like Audacious if the buffer size is too big. We are using very small sound effects with lengths about 1 sec or below. I don't know how openal uses buffers but if the new version uses different buffers this can be a point of interest. 

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-05-15 18:35:06 UTC]

Try openal-1.12.854...

[Comment 5 Martin Erdtmann 2010-05-15 19:19:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Try openal-1.12.854...
> 

I just tested it. 1.12.854 has the same behavior than 1.11.753. 1.9.563 work fine.

[Comment 6 Martin Erdtmann 2010-08-12 19:53:50 UTC]

1.9.563 has been removed from portage, great :(

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-01-20 19:59:42 UTC]

Last comment is quite old and both, eternal-lands and openal have had new releases. Lets refresh.

Please try with

>=games-rpg/eternal-lands-1.9.2-r1
>=media-libs/openal-1.13

Reopen if still problem, thanks!