Bug 46461 – tuxracer 0.61-r3: music is terribly distorted

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Christoph Terhechte 2004-04-01 03:04:25 UTC]

I've had to set music_enabled to false in .tuxracer/options because tuxracer's music is terribly distorted to the point where you don't recognize it's music at all.

This happens with all twelve possible combinations of audio_freq_mode (0/1/2), audio_format_mode (0/1) and audio_stereo (true/false). As the noise sounds different with different combinations, I suspect something might be wrong not with tuxracer but with alsa's OSS emulation (tuxracer uses /dev/dsp).

On the other hand, sox' play command (which also uses alsa's OSS emulation) perfectly plays audio files from the $KDEDIR/share/sounds directory.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. tuxracer

Actual Results:  
Terrible noise made me quit tuxracer in no time.


Expected Results:  
Please my ears and let me enjoy a game or two.


Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r2 x86_64 4
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/
http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo canna cdr cjk crypt cups dvd
dvdr emacs encode esd foomaticdb freewnn gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2
gtkhtml imap imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mule
ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime
readline sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex truetype unicode xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Sebastian Barthelmess 2004-05-25 05:49:30 UTC]

This is actually a bug in SDL.  Mandrake has already posted a bugfix, but didn't tell us what they did to fix it (10.0 release notes for beta 2).  Look around here, someone said they posted bug fixes for Gentoo.

-Poseidon

[Comment 2 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) 2004-06-04 10:09:47 UTC]

fixed by sdl-mixer patch...