[nas] Configuring NAS and libaudiooss

[Paul Fox]

hi janyne --

i guess i misunderstood your problem before.  sorry about that.

let me rephrase the problem, now that we have more information.

you're using an HMX X-terminal, and trying to get sound from a linux
box.  after setting AUDIOSERVER (or not, since i guess DISPLAY will
be used if AUDIOSERVER isn't set) the nas client programs like auplay
work, and you get sound on the HMX.

you're trying to use libaudiooss, and that's not working.

i'm not sure i can help much more, except to note that it certainly
shouldn't matter whether or not the linux machine has a sound card
in it.  (though, come to think of it, i guess i've never used libaudiooss
on such a machine.)

you also mentioned trying to use somehting called "midi synth" with
libaudiooss -- i'd be careful with this, since i'm not sure libaudiooss
will work with programs which try and open the midi device.  it's
main role is for programs that use /dev/audio and/or /dev/dsp, which
are the PCM devices.  (it also supports /dev/mixer.)

paul

 > Thanks for your response.
 > 
 > Paul Fox wrote:
 > > 
 > > you're not giving a very complete picture of what you're doing,
 > > but let's see...
 > > 
 > >  > OK, I have NAS and libaudiooss installed.  When I use audemo and auplay
 > > 
 > > on your linux box, i guess?
 > 
 > The sound is coming out of an NCD HMX terminal that I am testing with.
 > 
 > > 
 > >  > sound comes out.  I've read the documents several times and I am still
 > > 
 > > sound comes out locally on the linux server, i assume.  i'll come back
 > > to this, down below.
 > > 
 > >  > not really understanding how to set this up to redirect sound to the NCD
 > >  > xterminals.  When I do
 > >  >
 > >  > export LD_PRELOAD=/user/X11R6/lib/libaudiooss.so.1.0
 > >  >
 > >  > I get no sound (from audemo or auplay or from anything) and I'm not sure
 > >  > what I am missing.  Thanks!
 > > 
 > > i think we need some clarity on the pieces that make up NAS.
 > > 
 > >     - there are clients, which send sound to NAS servers.  clients
 > >         include auplay, audemo, NAS-enabled apps like some versions
 > >         of mpg123, and _any_ sound app that operates in the presence
 > >         of libaudiooss.  so by running auplay with libaudiooss loaded,
 > >         you're doing sort of an incorrect double indirection.  this
 > >         isn't what libaudiooss is for -- it should be used with
 > >         programs that _aren't_ NAS-aware, like realaudio.
 > 
 > Right.  I could get sound on the HMX with just NAS installed.  I
 > installed libaudiooss in an attempt to get sound from other applications
 > like flash.  I was testing with midi synth and a few other sound making
 > applications.  This works whether or not I've done "export
 > AUDIOSERVER=myterm:0.0" and always fails after "export
 > LD_PRELOAD=/user/X11R6/lib/libaudiooss.so.1.0."  The error is "error
 > while loading shared libraries:  libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared
 > object file:  No such file or directory."  I have checked and
 > libaudio.so.2 does exist in /usr/X11R6/lib.  This was not in my path.  I
 > added it to my path and I continue to get this error after "export
 > LD_PRELOAD."
 > 
 > >     - there are NAS servers.  nasd is a NAS server, and accepts connections
 > >         from any of the clients above.  NCD X-terminals are also NAS
 > >         servers, and also accept connections from clients.
 > 
 > Well, this is actually part of the problem I think.  I know that I've
 > confused myself some here because I "knew" that sound didn't work before
 > installing NAS and did not test it.  After installing NAS sounds did
 > work on the HMX (audemo for example) but nmap indicates that nasd is not
 > running.  I changed the debug code from 0 to 3 and this is the error
 > that I get when starting nasd now (no error before changing debug code):
 > 
 > Jan 23 12:59:14 linus modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
 > sound-slot-0
 > Jan 23 12:59:14 linus modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
 > sound-service-0-3
 > 
 > I also have another question, could the problem be that the Linux server
 > itself does not have a sound card?
 > 
 > > how do clients find NAS servers?  by following the AUDIOSERVER environment
 > > variable.  because the design of NAS was to mimic X, and send sound to
 > > the places your graphics are going, the value in AUDIOSERVER needs
 > > to look a lot like a DISPLAY variable.
 > > 
 > > if the AUDIOSERVER variable isn't set, then the clients effectively
 > > assume that they should connect to a local NAS server, which is probably
 > > what happens when you simply run "auplay".
 > > 
 > > so:  if you're on an X-terminal named "myterm", try this:
 > > 
 > > $ export AUDIOSERVER=myterm:0.0
 > > $ auplay foo.wav
 > > 
 > > and see what happens.
 > > 
 > > hope this helps!  (and i hope i haven't made too many assumptions about
 > > what's going wrong.)
 > > 
 > > paul
 > > =---------------------
 > >  paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 44.1 degrees)
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 > Janyne Kizer
 > CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
 > Systems Programmer Administrator I
 > NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
 > Extension and Administrative Technology Services
 > Phone: (919) 515-3609

=---------------------
 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 44.2 degrees)