I am trying to use the 'sound' widget. I get an error 'primitive has failed' Where do I go from here? I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and can use recording and play in 'Praat speech analyser' so my sound system is working in Ubuntu but can't get any sound in Squeak. The Movie Player also fails. I am using Squeak 3.9.
On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:29:22 +0930 jeffery.billing@bigpond.com wrote:
I am trying to use the 'sound' widget. I get an error 'primitive has failed' Where do I go from here? I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and can use recording and play in 'Praat speech analyser' so my sound system is working in Ubuntu but can't get any sound in Squeak. The Movie Player also fails. I am using Squeak 3.9.
Under Ubuntu (and Linux), Squeak requires the sound plugin. This should be a file called vm-sound-ALSA (or vm-sound-OSS) and could be located in /usr/local/squeak/lib (from memory) or whereever you installed squeak.
Try running "squeak -vm-sound-ALSA" and see what is output. "squeak -help" will have more information.
Gulik.
Hi Gulik, Many thanks for prompt reply. Everything worked fine. I have attached details of my commands in the Terminal. As you will see the ALSA gave problems but the OSS worked perfectly. I am not sure how I install this plugin so that it is there when I open from my desktop icon. (Yes I am new to Ubuntu as well!!). Regards Jeff.
On 26.05.2008, at 14:17, Jeffery Billing wrote:
Hi Gulik, Many thanks for prompt reply. Everything worked fine. I have attached details of my commands in the Terminal. As you will see the ALSA gave problems but the OSS worked perfectly. I am not sure how I install this plugin so that it is there when I open from my desktop icon. (Yes I am new to Ubuntu as well!!).
Why are you trying to run squeak as super user?
But it sounds like you got it working with OSS, right? Anything else you need?
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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Jeffery Billing < jeffery.billing@bigpond.com> wrote:
Hi Gulik, Many thanks for prompt reply. Everything worked fine. I have attached details of my commands in the Terminal. As you will see the ALSA gave problems but the OSS worked perfectly. I am not sure how I install this plugin so that it is there when I open from my desktop icon. (Yes I am new to Ubuntu as well!!).
The ALSA error you found looks like an authentic bug. I don't see those XIO errors on my machine; I wonder what they are.
If you right-click on the desktop icon for Squeak, you should be able to find somewhere that you can type in the command; you should in theory be able to append "-vm-sound-OSS" to that. I can't really help you much more here; I use IceWM and run Squeak from an xterm because it's heaps faster.
You shouldn't need to use sudo to run Squeak.
Cheers, Gulik.
On Mon, 26 May 2008 21:47:33 +0930, Jeffery Billing wrote:
Hi Gulik, Many thanks for prompt reply. Everything worked fine. I have attached details of my commands in the Terminal. As you will see the ALSA gave problems but the OSS worked perfectly. I am not sure how I install this plugin so that it is there when I open from my desktop icon. (Yes I am new to Ubuntu as well!!). Regards Jeff.
Greetings,
The error:
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 416 requests (416 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
is generated when squeak exits and does not seem to be related to whether or not sound is working.
The Ubuntu Squeak package does not contain the sound plugins.
You need to: copy as root vm-sound-ALSA and vm-sound-OSS to /usr/lib/squeak/3.9-8 put an image and changes files in a ~/directory add a link as root "ln -s /usr/share/squeak/SqueakV39.sources /usr/bin"
Now you can run squeak ~/directory/image.
Chris
Chris, I followed your instructions and at one point in the proceedings everything worked. I then found that whatever I did it would not work - so don't know what happened. I have spent 6 hours on this so will try again tomorrow with a fresh brain. At least I know it will work!!! so some progress. Jeff
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Jeffery Billing < jeffery.billing@bigpond.com> wrote:
Chris, I followed your instructions and at one point in the proceedings everything worked. I then found that whatever I did it would not work - so don't know what happened. I have spent 6 hours on this so will try again tomorrow with a fresh brain. At least I know it will work!!! so some progress.
Wow... I wish I had a full 6 hours to work on Squeak!
Gulik.
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