Bug 94940 – openal produces no sound in games like flightgear or xplane

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pedro Venda 2005-06-03 11:38:52 UTC]

Having tried compiling openal versions 20040817 and 20050504, both have 
simillar behaviour. 
 
There is no sound coming out of openal games like flightgear or x-plane. After 
many tries, I decided to make a cvs build of openal and it worked. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge openal 
2.emerge flightgear 
3.run fgfs (flightgear binary) 
 
Actual Results:  
there is no sound 

Expected Results:  
with standard .openalrc in homedir (directing sound into some alsa device) the 
software should produce some sounds. particularly because the software I 
mentioned are games and such really need sound to work well. 

 
both versions of openal were installed with following flags: 
+alsa -arts -debug +esd +mpeg +oggvorbis +sdl 
 
emerge info follows: 
----------------------- 
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, 
glibc-2.3.4.200 
41102-r1, 2.6.11.10-ss2 i686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.11.10-ss2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May  2 2005, 14:01:37)] 
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) 
[disabled] 
ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5 
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present] 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13 
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 
-f 
omit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -O2 -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share 
/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kd 
e/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/default 
s/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips 
/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config 
/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 
-mfpmath=sse,387  
-fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -O2 -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
ht 
tp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j5" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 X aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib 
cdparan 
oia cdr crypt cups curl dga dio directfb divx4linux doc dvd dvdr eds emboss 
enco 
de esd ethereal fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gpm 
gstreamer  
gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde kerberos ldap libg++ 
li 
bwww mad maildir mikmod mime mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc mysql 
ncurses  
nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png pnp python qt 
quickti 
me readline real samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga szip tcpd tetex tiff 
tru 
etype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv 
zl 
ib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, 
PORTDIR_OVERLA 
Y

[Comment 1 Pedro Venda 2005-06-03 11:40:30 UTC]

something I didn't explain well: 
 
After making the CVS build of openal, I replaced /usr/lib/libopenal.{a,so and 
such} with the ones produced from the CVS build. That's when the sound started 
to work. 

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-06-03 12:29:26 UTC]

I'm keeping myself on the list, simply because I'm still listed in metadata.xml
as the maintainer.  Also, if these games require newer versions of openal, then
we need to update their dependencies to reflect this.  Also, all of the openal
ebuilds are CVS snapshots, which are much preferred to actual livecd CVS
ebuilds... just a FYI...

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-06-14 04:58:38 UTC]

What if you use openal 0.0.8 and freealut instead of openal 20050504?

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-29 10:07:14 UTC]

No response and the older openal stuff isn't in the tree anymore, so I'm assuming this is FIXED.

[Comment 5 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-11-23 21:54:06 UTC]

bugzilla

[Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-11-23 21:54:15 UTC]

closing.