Re: No sounds other than console beep; what's wrong? (solved?)

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 (14:08 -0500 UTC) robert delius royar wrote: I found the line (110) in XEmacs src/esd.c that was the root of the problem: sock = esd_play_stream(flags, speed, NULL, ESD_NAME); The function in esdlib is prototyped as int esd_play_stream( esd_format_t format, int rate, const char *host, const char *name ); Passing the value NULL for the host worked until I recompiled XEmacs for Leopard. esd expects a host name or an octet string (with optional port/socketname appended). But the code in esdlib is supposed to accept !host as a signal to use localhost. However, it doesnot to work because of the new scheme for setting DISPLAY in OS X. If I change the call from XEmacs so that the NULL is replaced by "localhost", the sound plays. If I change the code in esdlib.c so that esd_play_stream checks for host==NULL and calls esd_open_sound("localhost") instead of esd_open_sound(NULL), then the sounds will also work. Either "fix" gets the sounds back. I have not tried the third alternative of setting the environment variable ESPEAKER to "localhost". It might also work; however, on the previous OS (10.4), setting ESPEAKER caused hangups in XEmacs. On 10.3, it was the only way to get esd to play. I just wanted to followup in case anyone else using OS X 10.5 found a similar problem with sounds. BTW: Is anyone working on a way to use CoreAudio from within XEmacs--similar to the way Windows sound is treated? -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta