fceu sound support broken in hardy

[ski]

Binary package hint: fceu

gfceu/fceu sound support is broken by the audio changes in hardy, with or without the use of aoss. Using Hardy Beta on amd64, last updated 2008-03-29 07:03 GMT with fceu 0.98.12-3.

ski@ganiodayo:~$ gfceu
gfceu message: Using: /usr/games/fceu
gfceu message: Command: /usr/bin/aoss /usr/games/fceu -sound 1 -fs 0 -opengl 0 "/media/deskaheh/fun/games/nes/PUNCH.NES"

Starting FCE Ultra 0.98.12...
Loading /media/deskaheh/fun/games/nes/PUNCH.NES...

 PRG ROM: 8 x 16KiB
 CHR ROM: 16 x 8KiB
 ROM CRC32: 0x67e1c05c
 ROM MD5: 0x672c558807a0ec0dea88b58aec284832
 Mapper: 9
 Mirroring: Horizontal

Initializing video... Video Mode: 512 x 448 x 32 bpp

Initializing sound...Error opening a sound device.
Quit
ski@ganiodayo:~$ /usr/games/fceu -sound 1 -fs 0 -opengl 0 "/media/deskaheh/fun/games/nes/PUNCH.NES"

Starting FCE Ultra 0.98.12...
Loading /media/deskaheh/fun/games/nes/PUNCH.NES...

 PRG ROM: 8 x 16KiB
 CHR ROM: 16 x 8KiB
 ROM CRC32: 0x67e1c05c
 ROM MD5: 0x672c558807a0ec0dea88b58aec284832
 Mapper: 9
 Mirroring: Horizontal

Initializing video... Video Mode: 512 x 448 x 32 bpp

Initializing sound...Error opening a sound device.
Quit

[amadaden (amadaden)]

I would like to confirm this bug. Running Hardy (but not beta like sky) amd64. System is fully up to date as of 6/9/2008

[ski (skibrianski)]

Bump. This bug still exists in hardy updated as of 2008/06/20.

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

Rather than using aoss, you can try padsp, i.e.,
padsp /usr/games/fceu -sound 1 -fs 0 -opengl 0 "/media/deskaheh/fun/games/nes/PUNCH.NES"

Also, if bug 254352 is fixed (fceu is updated to 2.0), then this bug should disappear.

[ski (skibrianski)]

> Rather than using aoss, you can try padsp, i.e.,
> padsp /usr/games/fceu -sound 1 -fs 0 -opengl 0 "/media/deskaheh/fun/games/nes/PUNCH.NES"

that sort of works, but (maybe it's just my audio chip?) the audio is choppy and slow, and since video output appears to be synchronous with audio output, that makes the games play slow, and sometimes hangs the fceu process such that onisand I have a core2duo, and it's only eating 7% of my cpu.

> Also, if bug 254352 is fixed (fceu is updated to 2.0), then this bug
> should disappear.

Probably it's best to focus efforts here...

[komputes (komputes)]

I have tested this in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and FCEU seems to freeze if sound is enabled. Disabling sound allows you to execute the ROM without it freezing.

fceu /media/nes/test.nes

Starting FCE Ultra 0.98.12...
Loading /media/nes/test.nes
 PRG ROM: 8 x 16KiB
 CHR ROM: 16 x 8KiB
 ROM CRC32: 0x77aa66aa
 ROM MD5: 0xccd25252569696925252525256969432
 Mapper: 4
 Mirroring: Vertical

Initializing video... Video Mode: 512 x 448 x 32 bpp

Initializing sound...Error opening a sound device.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you please test this with a newer and supported Ubuntu version? Thank you for telling us!

[ski (skibrianski)]

Seems to work on 12.04.1 / amd64. Don't currently have access to a 10.4 machine.