Which update killed sound in virtualbox-bin? [SOLVED]

groenoord · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 5

When I read that people identified libsdl as cause of the problem I checked my use flags. I am using virtualbox on my laptop, but I remembered that a long time ago I had other problems with esound on my desktop computer, where I finally decided to put -esd in make.conf. So I did the same on my laptop and this solved the virtualbox sound problem as well.

/Andreas

overkll · Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 3:35 pm Post subject:

Well I'll be! SOB! Disabling esd worked here as well.

Good catch groenoord/Andreas!

joefish · Guru Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 316 Location: New Zealand

Fixes it for me too!

cyrre · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 26

Re-emerging libsdl without the esd USE-flag didn't solve it for me.

Issue still remains when using ALSA

overkll · Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 5:05 pm Post subject:

Sorry to hear that. It worked for me on two systems - one laptop and one desktop. I don't know what else to suggest. I didn't even have to reboot or logout/login to test. Just recompiling libsdl w/o esd worked.

Which version of libsdl are you using?

overkll · Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject:

@cyrre,

What happens if you rollback esound from 0.2.41 to 0.2.38-r1? It's still in portage so you shouldn't have to make an overlay to test.

cyrre · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 26

Heyy, thanks for your quick replies

Downgrading esound didn't solve it.

But I noticed after I posted earlier that the issue is probably related to ALSA. I realised that only one application at the time can use audio. For some weird reason some of my apps seems to have stopped using dmix? Everything has been working flawless after I set up ALSA+dmix when I installed Gentoo in 2007. But since today or yesterday this doesn't work anymore.

The weird thing is that mpd+skype can use audio at the same time. But no other application plays sound (i.e Firefox+flash) when mpd is running, this has always been working earlier since I configured dmix. So I guess my VirtualBox-issue also will be solved when I figure out what has been messing up my system.

Any comments on what could be causing this will be appreciated.

Kind of a frustrating coincidence that this would happen around the same time a solution to the VirtualBox+libsdl issue was found. :twisted:

overkll · Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject:

I've never set up dmix before, but maybe that's the issue you are having. Check out this link:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/home/w/org/opensrc/alsa/index.php?title=DmixPlugin

To quote directly:

NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup dmix. Dmix is enabled as default for soundcards which don't support hw mixing.

What are we at now? 1.0.18 or so?

Maybe you could try disabling dmix and just use a standard alsa setup. I also recall reading (an emerge warning?) that any .asoundrc files need to be deleted as they can cause issues.

Good luck.

EDIT: Found the warning in alsa-lib ebuild:

cyrre · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 26

I remember I've read about this before, but since my setup with dmix has worked I haven't cared about it I guess.

Don't have time right now, but tomorrow I will remove asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc and see if it makes any difference.

Thank you very much!

AlienPenguin · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 12 Location: Pisa, Italy

I am glad to confirm that disabling the esd USE for libsdl fixed it for me too.

(on two systems)

bigsun · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Posts: 2

very happy , the problem is resolved by -esd USE flag at last.

cyrre · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 26

I had messed up my mpd.conf which was causing my issues ALSA.

The sound in VirtualBox works fine after disabling the -esd USE-flag.

lkraav · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:23 pm Post subject:

thanks ladies and gents, libsdl -esd fixed virtualbox-bin-3.1.4 audio for me.

Master of the Darkside · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:47 pm Post subject:

I can confirm that downgrading libsdl (from ~ to stable amd64), solved it for me. I never used the esd use flag.
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SDNick484 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 226

This issue is still open. I'm running app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.1.6 and sound wasn't working with media-libs/libsdl-1.2.14-r2 (current ~amd64). Downgrading to media-libs/libsdl-1.2.13-r1 (current stable) resolved the issue for me. Also I should note that there's no "esd" USE for 1.2.14.

So to be clear, the following failed (no sound in VirtualBox with ALSA):
[ebuild R ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.14-r2 USE="X alsa audio joystick opengl video xv -aalib -custom-cflags -dga -directfb -fbcon -ggi -libcaca -nas -oss (-ps3) -pulseaudio -static-libs (-svga) -tslib -xinerama"

Downgrading to the following fixed the issue:
[ebuild R ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.13-r1 USE="X alsa audio joystick opengl video xv -aalib -custom-cflags -dga -directfb -esd -fbcon -ggi -libcaca -nas -oss -pulseaudio (-svga) -tslib -xinerama"

cyrius · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 70 Location: France

Unfortunately, i use Virtual Box.
Allright, i think i found the solution for newest ebuild of libsdl.
In the ebuild the option --disable-alsa-shared is on. Then by removing it, it works now.
I post a bugg for gentoo.

rh1 · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2010 Posts: 501

meyerm · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:50 am Post subject:

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

YES! This has been irritating me for some time now, and removing --disable-alsa-shared from the libsdl ebuild has fixed it. Thanks guys. Maybe a bug should be filed?
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fleed · l33t Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 756 Location: London

Another me too here.