No sound with programs using libkxl

[jhansonxi]

Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) x86_64
geki3 1.0.3-7

Error message:
KXL error message
could not open sound card (No such file or directory)

Not a device conflict. Tried with aoss, padsp, and pasuspender. Bug #45359 is similar.

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

Without logs, triaging this will be taking a shot in the dark. Please execute "apport-collect BUGNUMBER" so that the relevant logs end up here.

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

In the small amount of previously provided information, the root cause is clearly stated. "KXL error message" means that the issue isn't with the game itself, but with libkxl0, and by proxy, KXL itself.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

apport-collect doesn't recognize the package and it's not in the Precise repos:

Package kxl not installed and no hook available, ignoring

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

The binary is libkxl0. Can be found in the Precise Repos @ http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/precise/kxl.

Hope this clears that up.

Quinn Balazs

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

Reports attached to bug #1231159 since apport-collect won't attach them here.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

I thought I wrote a comment last week about this, but I must have forgotten to hit the post button or something...

Anyway, one can get around the "no sound card" error by reverting the 40_nonlinux.diff patch and using padsp. However, that only produce a different error (buffer overflow) and no sound, so I'm not sure if that's "progress" or not.

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

Do we know if libkxl is still actively maintained by the Debian Games Team? Conversations about fixing this in Debian have been going on for several years, and there hasn't been any forward progress made on it. kxl hasn't been updated since late 2012, and the change from 1.1.7-14 to 1.1.7-16 only addressed an issue relating to using linux headers where they are inappropriate.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Debian still builds their kernel with snd-pcm-oss module, so they don't have to use padsp. I'm actually running Debian sid as my main distro and I just verified sound works fine here after loading snd-pcm-oss...

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

Okay, so the issue here then is with 'buntu's packaging of kxl.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Part of it is the packaging, but even after the patch is reverted and geki3 finds the soundcard, it still gives an error when running with padsp.