Sound is not working on Debian 9

[ghost]

I downloaded the whole master source code, a couple of hours ago. I took a few minutes and tries to discover the things to pass to configure script, and I ended with this line:

$ ./configure --prefix="/algum/lugar/.raiz/" --enable-zip --enable-gzip --enable-screenshot --enable-xvideo --enable-xinerama --enable-sound

Now I can run the compiled snes9x with this line, but there is no sound:

./snes9x rom.sfc

The output of that command starts with:

`

Snes9x 1.58 for unix ERROR: Failed to open sound device /dev/dsp for writing. (Try loading snd-pcm-oss module?) Port 1: Pad #1. Port 2: . No ROM file header found. Map_LoROMMap "TETRIS ATTACK" [checksum ok] LoROM, 8Mbits, ROM, NTSC, SRAM:0Kbits, ID:AYLE, CRC32:6C128210 joystick: No joystick found. `

Note: I have seen a comment about version 1.59. Did I download the wrong version? What is the place to download the newest release (not beta or alpha, please!).

[ghost]

How should I escape the "#1" inside the snes9x output so it is not transformed in a link?

[bearoso]

That’s the barebones Unix version. If you want more features, you have to use the GTK version. You’re not getting sound because you don’t have the oss module loaded and/or pulse audio is overriding it. You can use the ALSA driver instead, or use the GTK version that has even more drivers.

[ghost]

I have the GTK version installed, but it is not compiled with the command line switches I want to use.

The sound works for other programs and for snex9x GTK 1.52. It should work for the unix version too. Why not?

[ghost]

Months ago, in another computer, I had a snex9x for unix that had sound and zip support (everything the graphical version had, plus command line options!). What happened to that? Unfortunately, I could not find it for this new computer. But I found this project, and it looks good. Everything I want is in the compile options.

[ghost]

Can you guide me for solving the sound issue? What you said is not enough for me.

[bearoso]

Either as root or with sudo, execute: modprobe snd-pcm-oss

or run snes9x by using padsp snes9x with whatever options you want.

I have the GTK version installed, but it is not compiled with the command line switches I want to use.

What command line switches are those, exactly?

[ghost]

What each of those options do? Is there a reason that I should prefer one or another?

The 'modprobe' one does what, exactly? 'snd-pcm-oss' is something that will be created? I found this page about modprobe in Debian:

https://wiki.debian.org/modprobe

But the information is there is far from what I can understand.

Back to my machine, I used the command find /dev -iname '*snd*' to find which things inside the /dev folder have "snd", in any way, in their names or path. Only the /dev/snd folder was found. With one more find command, we can see everything inside the /dev/snd folder:

` $ find /dev/snd/ /dev/snd/ /dev/snd/by-path /dev/snd/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.3 /dev/snd/hwC0D2 /dev/snd/hwC0D0 /dev/snd/pcmC0D8p /dev/snd/pcmC0D7p /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p /dev/snd/controlC0 /dev/snd/seq /dev/snd/timer

$ ` About the other option. 'padsp' is something I do not have installed. I discovered that it is Pulse Audio. According to that page, it is "a sound system for POSIX OSes". I know what posix is. But my OS already have a sound system - or may it happen that we install several ways to use the single hardware?

I would like to use all options of snes9x unix, if possible, in snes9x GTK. And I would also like to have all GTK has in snes9x unix. I noted that: the window size is not used by snes9x unix, only by GTK. The keys I chose to use to use different from the defaults (use space instead of 'pause/break' key) to pause the emulation. I found it strange that I did not have command line options in the GTK version, only the rom file argument (I think).

But I mainly started the search, compiling and running of snes9x unix here for the -recordmovie and -playmovie options.

And we are in the no sound issue... all this discussion is not a problem? A hope no.

By the way, most of the time, I run snes9x GTK by the command line, with the name of the ROM I want - much more practical than menu > open rom window > finding a rom > running the game. There is the recent ROMs menu, but it will trash my favorite (and mostly played) ROMs when I open several unkown ROMs just to check them a bit.

[bearoso]

snd-pcm-oss is the ALSA compatibility module for OSS, the sound protocol the Unix version uses. It should create the /dev/dsp device nodes necessary for sound. The nodes in the snd directory are for ALSA only.

[bearoso]

Not a bug. You’re free to continue posting if you need more help, but I’m closing the issue.