On 3/23/17, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:55:17PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> I???ve been doing some swiki-cleaning and stumbled upon
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/263
>> wherein Lex Spoon had written some code to drive the /dev/dsp sound device
>> doohickey on unix. Since it claimed to be able to support low-latency
>> sound playing, this may be useful to those of you interested in making
>> noises.
>>
>> It???s old, possibly wrong, but it???s there awaiting attention from
>> someone with a bit of appropriate knowledge.
>>
>
> Nice find. A lot of what Lex did is worth a second look :-)
>
> Quite a bit has changed in the intervening years with respect to sound on
> Squeak and Linux. For example, there is no longer such a thing as /dev/dsp
> on my Ubuntu box, or on my Raspberry Pi. I think that device was associated
> with an older sound system (OSS). Nevertheless, the basic idea of the mmap
> driver interface may be applicable to something.
>
> Just a sanity check - do you have sound with whatever VM you are using? I
> have some VMs that seem to have trouble finding -vm-sound-pulse, possibly
> due to build system issues.

No, for the current setup I am using on Ubuntu 14.04 and a recent
all-in-one (Squeak 6.0a trunk  **) sound does not work. In other
programs sound works on the machine
--Hannes


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