Hydrogen's OSS driver doesn't work

[Robert Persson]

Binary package hint: hydrogen

I am running the latest Hydrogen for Jaunty (hydrogen 0.9.3). I am using a hand-rolled kernel plus OSS4.

When I select OSS for the sound output in Hydrogen, and then click to restart the driver, I get an "Error starting audio driver" pop-up. I am able to use several other OSS-capable apps successfully, e.g. VLC, osstest, Adobe Flash Player. To be more specific, VLC works, while Hydrogen doesn't, even though /dev/dsp is selected as the output in both cases.

[Robert Persson (ireneshusband)]

Here's what the console says:

robert@ermintrude:~/.kde/share/config$ hydrogen
lash_open_socket: could not connect to host 'localhost', service '14541'
lash_comm_connect_to_server: could not create server connection
lash_open_socket: could not connect to host 'localhost', service '14541'
lash_comm_connect_to_server: could not create server connection
lash_open_socket: could not connect to host 'localhost', service '14541'
lash_comm_connect_to_server: could not create server connection
lash_open_socket: could not connect to host 'localhost', service '14541'
lash_comm_connect_to_server: could not create server connection
lash_open_socket: could not connect to host 'localhost', service '14541'
lash_comm_connect_to_server: could not create server connection
lash_open_socket: could not connect to host 'localhost', service '14541'
lash_comm_connect_to_server: could not create server connection
lash_init: could not connect to server 'localhost' - disabling LASH
Warning: no locale found: /usr/share/hydrogen/data/i18n/hydrogen.en_GB.UTF-8
Warning: error loading locale: /usr/share/hydrogen/data/i18n/hydrogen.en_GB.UTF-8.qm

Hydrogen 0.9.3 [Jun 13 2008] [http://www.hydrogen-music.org]
Copyright 2002-2005 Alessandro Cominu

Compiled modules: (FLAC) (LASH) (Jack) (Alsa) (OSS) (LRDF)

Hydrogen comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details

Using data path: /usr/share/hydrogen/data
[WARNING] SongReader [readSong] Trying to load a song created with a different version of hydrogen.
[WARNING] SongReader [readSong] Song [/usr/share/hydrogen/data/DefaultSong.h2song] saved with version 0.9.2
[LadspaFX::getPluginList] reading directory: /usr/lib/ladspa
no more csLADSPA plugins
[LadspaFX::getPluginList] reading directory: /usr/lib/hydrogen/plugins
[LadspaFX::getPl...

[Robert Persson (ireneshusband)]

I've filed a bug report upstream http://www.assembla.com/spaces/hydrogen/tickets/119-OSS-driver-won-t-start-due-to-wrong-block-size

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) reached end-of-life on October 23, 2010.

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We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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