[nas] Problems compiling NAS on Solaris x86

[Jon Trulson]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Victor Wagner wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:04:11 +0400
> From: Victor Wagner <vitus at ice.ru>
> To: nas at radscan.com
> Subject: [nas] Problems compiling NAS on Solaris x86
> 
> I've tried to install NAS on my solaris-x86 machine (Solaris 8)
> with some cheap ISA audio card. Card is recognized by Solaris
> as sbpro compatible and following entries exist in /devices:
> 
> /devices/isa/sbpro at 1,220:sound,sbpro
> /devices/isa/sbpro at 1,220:sound,sbproctl
> 
> with appropriate links from /dev/audio and /dev/audioctl
> 
> Card does work, becouse mpg123 plays sound locally. But I use machine
> mainly as X-terminal and need to play sounds from nearby Linux machines.
> 
> Machine doesn't have Sun Workshop compilier and does have gcc 2.95.2
> from Solaris 8 Software Companion CD.
> 
> I have to fix Imake templates in /usr/openwin/lib/config in order to
> prohibit imake from putting illegal switch -mt into gcc command line.
> 
> I've added defines 
> HasGcc2 yes, 
> HasGcc2ForCplusplus yes
> and redefine ProjectThreadDefines from -DXTREADS -mt
> to -DXTHREADS

	Usually, these will go into site.def (except ProjectThreadDefines
which, unfortunately, you do have to edit directly).

> 
> (I've put these definition into Imake.cf instead of site.def, which
> might be wrong)
> 
> After that NAS 1.5 compilies cleanly, but when I attempt to play any
> sound from locally started autool, it plays random noise instead of
> music. Volume of this noice can be adjusted via appropriate scrollbar.
> 

	Is it random?  Or most likely, the wrong sample rate... There are
some adjustables in /etc/nas/nasd.conf that might help... Notably,
maxrate and forcerate... I had a similiar problem on a linux box with an
ISA SB... Had to set to 22Khz as max before it would work.  I don't have
any solaris here to confirm, but I believe several other people on this
list use it regularly...

> Same wav-file is played by sdtaudio without problems.
> 
> I've tried to downgrade to NAS 1.4.2, but effect is the same, so
> probably something is wrong in the compilation process.
> Increasing debug level in /etc/nas/nasd.conf doesn't reveal anything
> interesting. 
> 

	Did you try the 1.5h devel (soon to be 1.6 release)?  

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