[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] No sound on Linux (#489)

[K K Subbu]

On 09/05/20 8:00 am, Oisín wrote:
> I was able to get sound to play with the following code in Cuis (with 
> |padsp cogspur/squeak ...|):
> 
> |Feature require: #'Sound'. SoundPlayer boinkScale. |
> 
> Although it seems to lock the VM up with an hourglass cursor, so I can't 
> do anything else.

> Running |AbstractSound bachfugue play| produces no sound for me and CPU 
> usage seems to go to nearly 100% for a while.
Does the sound work when using Squeak 5.3 image under padsp?

Perhaps, sound player primitive is failing for some reason and sound is 
being generated in interpreted code. You could use the interrupt key 
while the CPU is maxed and trace the function.

Regards .. Subbu