[Vm-dev] Sound is working on 64-bit Linux now

[David T. Lewis]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:32:55AM +0200, Jos? L. Redrejo Rodr?guez wrote:
>  
> El lun, 27-04-2009 a las 17:09 -0400, David T. Lewis escribi??:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:49:41PM +0200, Jos? L. Redrejo Rodr?guez wrote:
> > >  
> > > El lun, 27-04-2009 a las 19:29 +0200, Bert Freudenberg escribi??:
> > > > 
> > > > You also need to regenerate the src/plugins/SoundPlugin.c file after  
> > > > applying the SoundPlugin-64bit-dtl.1.cs changeset.
> > > 
> > > Thanks Bert, I  had missed that. Now it works perfectly, I'm sending
> > > this email from an amd64 Lenny installation where Squeak sounds!!
> > 
> > Great, thanks for trying the patches. 
> > 
> > > Thanks very much David for your work, this has been an issue for a long
> > > time.
> > > 
> > > The same problem is still there with RomePlugin and GstreamerPlugin,
> > > both used in the eToys image. It would be great if you could also take a
> > > look at them. I'll fill a bug in mantis for them if that's better to
> > > track the problem.
> > 
> > Yes, it would be helpful if you can open Mantis bugs for these also.
> > I am not really familiar with these two plugins, but I will be happy
> > to take a look at them and see if I can get them working on 64-bit
> > systems.
> 
> I've filled http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7344 for the Rome plugin.
> That one is really easy to reproduce.
> 
> I'll do more tests with gstreamer to document its fail as good as
> possible.

Thanks.

One more follow-up question concerning sound: Is the SoundCodecPlugin
important for you on 64-bit Linux? This is used Klatt (Speaker default
say: 'hello'). The plugin is separate from SoundPlugin, and it has not
been updated for 64-bit systems. For example, if you evaluate
"Speaker manWithEditor" and then put the editor in the trash, the VM
will crash on a 64-bit platform. Is this important for EToys?

Dave