Bug 462894 – games-arcade/dynamitejack no sound on amd64

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Jared B. 2013-03-24 01:19:52 UTC]

I installed games-arcade/dynamitejack-1.0.23 with no problems, and it loads and runs fine, but I get no sound.  Haven't had any luck trying to troubleshoot the cause.  It seems this is a fairly comment problem on 64-bit systems, with two alternative suggestions to fix:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/846938350734653709/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/202730/discussions/0/864956554752814594/

The first isn't really applicable to Linux as I'm limited to whatever the emul-linux-x86-soundlibs package provides, and in this case it *does* seem to already provide the ALSA plugins, or at least some subset of them.

The second, unfortunately, didn't help either.  But, the last step, involving editing /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/51-pulseaudio-probe.conf, didn't match up for me - I have nothing under that alsa.conf.d directory except for a README that, sadly, wasn't all that helpful.

I'm stuck at this point.  Any ideas?  emerge --info pasted below.  Aside from that, I guess the main things worth mentioning are that I'm running amd64 with ALSA and with *no* pulse audio.

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.11.55 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.10-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.7.10-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_860_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
KiB Mem:     8167012 total,   2214960 free
KiB Swap:    4194296 total,   4188056 free
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:45:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.12-r1
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.9
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-11.x DOOM3 Introversion LOKI-EULA Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE postal2 PUEL Q3AEULA QUAKE4 RTCW RTCW-ETEULA ut2003"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0"                                                     
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"                                       
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"                                              
DISTDIR="/home/jbreland/data/files/distfiles"                                   
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"                                                             
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"             
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"                                                              
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"                                      
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"                                                              
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"                                               
MAKEOPTS="-j9"                                                                  
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"                                                  
PORTAGE_COMPRESS="lzma"                                                         
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-7"                                                     
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"                                                          
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"                                 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp"                                                           
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"                                                          
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/jbreland/data/dev/portage"                               
SYNC="rsync://209.221.142.124/gentoo-portage"                                   
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 ao bash-completion bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cli cracklib crypt cxx dbus dga dri dts dvd exif fam flac gdbm gif gmp handbook iconv icu jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms libnotify libsamplerate lzma lzo mad matroska mmap mmx modules mp3 mudflap multilib nls nptl ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pch pcntl pcre png qt4 readline session smp sndfile spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg syslog taglib tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode vim-syntax vorbis x264 xcb xcomposite xinerama xmp xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="canon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="epson epson2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Julian Ospald 2013-03-25 18:56:54 UTC]

can't reproduce

[Comment 2 Jared B. 2013-03-25 19:24:50 UTC]

do you have pulse audio installed?  I think that may play a part.

Otherwise, what can I do to help troubleshoot?  I haven't had any luck with the standard basic troubleshooting I do (checking dependencies, checking strace output for any obvious failures, etc.), and I'm not really familiar with the more thorough debugging utilities like gdb.

[Comment 3 Julian Ospald 2013-03-25 19:40:16 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> do you have pulse audio installed?

the amd64 bit media-sound/pulseaudio? no
the 32bit library? yes, it's installed by app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs

[Comment 4 Jared B. 2013-03-27 00:19:32 UTC]

ok, so again, what can I do to help troubleshoot?

[Comment 5 Julian Ospald 2013-03-27 15:13:04 UTC]

maybe it's even a card thing, because of that sick libIrrKlang.so lib

maybe run:
LD_DEBUG="libs" dynamitejack

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2018-02-28 14:59:19 UTC]

ebuild was completely redone and now uses native libs (also pulseaudio), this is probably obsolete now then