[squeak-dev] Sound mixing makes nasty noises

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Thu Dec 24 20:36:41 UTC 2020



> On 2020-12-24, at 12:18 PM, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> ATM I get no sound from Squeak or Scratch on my Raspi3. I updated the OS
> but it still doesn't say "Raspberry Pi OS"

Hmm, updating a Pi can be confusing at times.

If you do 
`uname -a` in a terminal, what do you see?

On my still-alsa machine I get
Linux Goldskin 5.4.51-v7l+ #1333 SMP Mon Aug 10 16:51:40 BST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux

On my test-pulse I get
Linux Pi-4-1-pulse 5.4.79-v7l+ #1373 SMP Mon Nov 23 13:27:40 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux

Remember that you need to include the vm sound flag when you start up squeak! I keep forgetting that. Though.. if you're start scratch with the standard menu entry, that should do it. Let's see - there is also the possibility you are not directing sound to the right output. The Pi sound-volume control widget on the menubar can set where the sound goes - right-click on it and you should see a menu with at least
  Analogue
  HDMI
entries. I use the analogue and headphones since none of my Pi have a direct HDMI display attached but go via VNC. If you have an HDMI monitor attached it may not have speakers or you might not have them turned on! DAMHIKT.



> 
> With some googling I got Audio working from Audacity (simple Audio
> Editor I use on Raspi, Linux and Windows). I use Squeak5.3-19439.
> 
> Recording with a phone will show some glitches but the bandwidth of
> phone (and monitor speakers) mellows down (err filters) the waveform.
> Surely only second choice.
> 
> I would not mind downloading and using the proper Squeak to get sound going.

The 5.3 armlinux package from squeak.org ought to do ok for this. Remembering of course to include that '-vm-sound-alsa' (or pulse) in your commandline


tim
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