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Debian Squeeze.
2.6.32-5-amd64. Alsa Sound.
Cool VL Viewer 1.25.0 (14) Nov 20 2010 16:52:32 (Cool VL Viewer).
No Pulse Audio installed.
Export bad everything but Alsa is uncommented.

I get no sound at all from Cool but sound works fine in the official viewer. Ran Cool from a command-line but didn't see any major issues. Secondlife logs look ok. Checked alsamixer; everything is turned up and unmuted.

Searched the forum with Google, but didn't find anything.


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2010-11-30 04:12:24
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mooreted wrote:
Debian Squeeze.
2.6.32-5-amd64. Alsa Sound.
Cool VL Viewer 1.25.0 (14) Nov 20 2010 16:52:32 (Cool VL Viewer).
No Pulse Audio installed.
Export bad everything but Alsa is uncommented.

I get no sound at all from Cool but sound works fine in the official viewer. Ran Cool from a command-line but didn't see any major issues. Secondlife logs look ok. Checked alsamixer; everything is turned up and unmuted.

Searched the forum with Google, but didn't find anything.

To figure out what is wrong on your system, I'd need to have the SecondLife.log...

However you say "Export bad everything but ALSA is uncommented": if "export LL_BAD_FMOD_ALSA=x" is uncommented, then it's flagged as bad !...

To use Alsa, you should have:
Code:
## - Avoids using any OpenAL audio driver.
export LL_BAD_OPENAL_DRIVER=x
## - Avoids using any FMOD audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_DRIVER=x

## - Avoids using the FMOD ESD audio driver.
export LL_BAD_FMOD_ESD=x
## - Avoids using the FMOD OSS audio driver.
export LL_BAD_FMOD_OSS=x
## - Avoids using the FMOD ALSA audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_ALSA=x

or, using OpenAL (may result in inferior sounds, on some systems):
Code:
## - Avoids using any OpenAL audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_OPENAL_DRIVER=x
## - Avoids using any FMOD audio driver.
export LL_BAD_FMOD_DRIVER=x

## - Avoids using the FMOD ESD audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_ESD=x
## - Avoids using the FMOD OSS audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_OSS=x
## - Avoids using the FMOD ALSA audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_ALSA=x


You also say "No Pulse Audio installed": please note that with ALSA drivers, you also need a software mixer active on your system (Pulseaudio, or Esound (esd), or Arts, or Jackit daemons), else the first program grabbing the sound device will be the only one able to play sounds (and if, for example, you got voice enabled in the viewer, the voice client may grab your device, not letting it available any more for the viewer itself).

If, like, me, you don't like the idea of a daemon running in the background just to provide poor/laggy/mutually incompatible sound mixing services, you can install OSS v4.2 instead: OSS is now OpenSource and got a built-in, transparent, zero lag, software mixer, rendering all sound daemons obsolete and useless. I recommend building OSS from source (to avoid the force updating feature that kicks in every 6 months), but you can just as well grab prebuilt binaries.


2010-11-30 10:27:52
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Sorry, I should have said "commented" not "uncomnmented".

No other application is using sound while I'm playing SL. I haven't setup dmix or anything yet. Just recently switched to Debian. I have heard good things about OSS.

I'll attach the log. Thanks for taking a look.


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2010-11-30 16:09:49
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Tried OSS4, unfortunately I use Mangler as a Vent client for Wow and it doesn't have OSS4 support. So I installed PulseAudio which is working for everything but Cool Viewer.

Here it shows I have OpenAL blocked in the startup script:

## - Avoids using any OpenAL audio driver.
export LL_BAD_OPENAL_DRIVER=x
## - Avoids using any FMOD audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_DRIVER=x

## - Avoids using the FMOD ESD audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_ESD=x
## - Avoids using the FMOD OSS audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_OSS=x
## - Avoids using the FMOD ALSA audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_ALSA=x

Maybe I'll try reinstalling. Maybe something went wrong with the diff files.


2010-12-01 11:29:20
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Note that pretty much any software can be convinced to use OSS... See this wiki page.

If you are using Pulseaudio, then you will need to install its Esound compatibility module to use any v1 viewer with it.


2010-12-01 13:33:52
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I have pulseaudio.
I always uncomment the line with bad fmod driver. I get audio in all SL clients on my system,but that's using Intel integrated HD audio.
Working with Cool,Phoenix and Imprudence


2010-12-01 16:04:09
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Yup, have esound compatability module installed. I'll try uncommenting fmod and see what happens.

Thanks.


2010-12-01 16:40:16
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Reinstalled and now sound is working. Something went wonky I guess.


2010-12-05 07:07:36
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