Openal issues with 1.4.2 RC 1

#1 I have experienced mandrake, redhat , fedora, the only one who works correctly the first time is ubuntu

I used during 2 years redhat partially with windows , now i use ubuntu fully since the begining of the year

for more information : eviwo.free.fr/torque.html

Philippe

#2 I am pretty frustrated at this point. To make a long story short, I am now running Ubuntu Dapper x86_64, and I still get the exact same issues initializing openal.

I have tried substituting various versions of the openal library, all with no luck.

I checked out the latest HEAD, but of course I cannot compile it yet due to 64-bit issues. I have been looking over all the forums here and other places, and have LOTS of places to start, but am a little overwhelmed. I am going to try and get all the 32-bit dev packages that I need to build the TGE soon, but haven't started yet. I have seen a number of issues with openal, but nobody seems to have directly addressed this initialization issue.

I have installed libopenal-dev version 1:0.0.8-1ubuntu1, as well as libopenal0a (same ver.).

I would really like to figure out what is going on. Is there a way to force any of the common ubuntu multimedia apps to use the openal libraries, so that I can at least test that they are working outside of torque. I was hoping to be able to start by playing around inside the world editor, etc. before I started trying to build everything myself (I USED to program pretty will in C++ but 3 years of working in VB/MS Access has thoroughly rotted my brain).

In the meantime, I guess I will jump in the fire of trying to get TGE to compile. Wish me luck...

#3 A little more information about the openal initialization. I wasn't checking the console logs very well yet. Here is what little is says about the openal initialzation:

OpenAL Driver Init:

OpenAL

^^Searching for OpenAl at location : /home/monkey/Torque/example/lib/libopenal.so

^^Searching for OpenAl at location : /home/monkey/Torque/example/tplib/libopenal.so

^^Searching for OpenAl at location : /home/monkey/Torque/example//libopenal.so

 Error loading OpenAL Library: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

   Failed to initialize driver.

From the dump from runtorque.sh, and ldd torqueDemo.bin (runtorque.sh right now)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:./lib:../lib/openal/LINUX:../lib/xiph/linux: (not sure how that jibes with above search pattern)

+ ldd ./torqueDemo.bin
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libogg.so.0 => ./lib/libogg.so.0 (0x5556e000)
libvorbis.so.0 => ./lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0x55574000)
libtheora.so.0 => ./lib/libtheora.so.0 (0x5559b000)
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => ./lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0x555b9000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0x55635000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0x55647000)
libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libXft.so.2 (0x5564b000)
libstdc++.so.6 => ./lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x5565d000)
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0x55743000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => ./lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x55765000)
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0x55770000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0x558a0000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0x55986000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x55555000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x55993000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6 (0x559c1000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0x55a2a000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXrender.so.1 (0x55a3f000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0x55a47000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libexpat.so.1 (0x55a4a000)

Hope this is helpful. Thanks, Jim

#4 Check you /usr/lib directory for libasound*

looks like you do not have the ALSA library development files installed

for ubuntu they can be easily installed via System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager

the click search and type in libasound2, install both libasound2 and libasound2-dev


-Ron

#5 Hi Ron,

I had checked that already. I have libasound.so, libasound.so.2 and libasound.so.2.0.0 in /usr/lib. The first two are symlinks to the *.0.0 file, but that shouldn't be an issue?

I also noticed that libopenal.so is the only library in the libs folder that doesn't have a .0 at the end. However, the console log does appear to be looking for the .so. I have tried using the openal.so from CVS, and even built openal from source, and always get the same errors.

I have successfully ran a couple of basic openal test apps now, and they work fine. When I try to run "./runtorque -log 2", I get a really early message in the console saying cannot open file "-log" with a file i/o error. In fact a variation on that theme happens when I tried to save a journal. Any ideas? However, it is saving the journal files, and doing what I want to with the log.

I know, build from the source, and come back then... :)

Thanks a lot, even though I am frustrated I am really really pleased by what I am seeing, on the forums as well as what I someday hope to be able to do with the engine.

Jim

#6 Jim,

in the windows console i have the folowing message :

OpenAL Driver Init:
OpenAL
^^Searching for OpenAl at location : /home/philippe/boomboom/lib/libopenal.so
   Loading OpenAL: /home/philippe/boomboom/lib/libopenal.so
   Setting OpenAL output frequency to 22050
   Vendor: J. Valenzuela
   Version: 0.0.6
   Renderer: Software
   Extensions: AL_LOKI_quadriphonic AL_LOKI_play_position AL_LOKI_WAVE_format AL_LOKI_IMA_ADPCM_format AL_LOKI_buffer_data_callback ALC_LOKI_audio_channel
%

Now If i rename the directory lib in lib-hide , I get the folowing message :

OpenAL Driver Init:
OpenAL
^^Searching for OpenAl at location : /home/philippe/boomboom/lib/libopenal.so
^^Searching for OpenAl at location : /home/philippe/boomboom/tplib/libopenal.so
^^Searching for OpenAl at location : /home/philippe/boomboom//libopenal.so
 Error loading OpenAL Library: libopenal.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
   Failed to initialize driver.

In the directory of torque.bin the directory lib does not exist or libopenal.so does not exist in the directory lib.
But I wonder why it is not the same library name ?

#7 For your information the library used by torquedemo.bin as you can see libasound.so.2 is listed

philippe@Josie:~/boomboom$ ldd torqueDemo.bin
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0xb7f88000)
libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0xb7f60000)
libtheora.so.0 => /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0 (0xb7f43000)
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xb7ebb000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7ea9000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7ea5000)
libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb7e93000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7dbe000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7d9c000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7d92000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7c63000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7b7c000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0xb7ac7000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7aba000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f9d000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7a8c000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7a23000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7a0e000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7a06000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7a03000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb79e4000)
philippe@Josie:~/boomboom$

#8 The demo didnt have any sound for me for some reason

but the full sdk does, it works with sound, by default, i didnt change anything

im on ubuntu dapper drake