Running Squeak without sound card
Dwight Hughes
dwighth at ipa.net
Wed Sep 30 01:14:46 UTC 1998
Open the root menu at the Squeak desktop, select "help...", select "turn
sound off", save image.
Or you can open the "help..." menu, select "edit preferences..." - which
opens an inspector on Preferences, select "disableSounds" - which will
be false - change to true and accept, save image.
-- Dwight
Mark Wai wrote:
>
> I never think of this but...
>
> I just installed Squeak in a number of OS/2 boxes for new people to try out
> Squeak at my site. Unfortunately, our boxes are either without sound card
> or the sound card does not work under OS/2 (our boxes are originally
> configured for NT).
>
> Anyway, when we tried "play with me - 4" with the BookMorph ('Back to the
> Future'), when we hit the 'next' key, debugger comes up complaining
> primitive 170 failed. So one user who happens to know a bit of Smalltalk
> commented out SoundPlayer class>>primSoundStartBufferSize:rate:stereo: and
> restart the process. And then another debugger came up complaining
> primitive 173 failed and when she finally decided to close the debugger, the
> system completely hanged and she has to reboot the system.
>
> Now I put a temp fix in AbstractSound >> play to disable any sound to play
> and it seems to work fine.
>
> --
> Mark Wai
> Wator Innovision
> mailto: mwai at ibm.net or:[ mwai at frontiersa.com]
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