Solaris XMMS plugin                                          NEW: Version 0.6.4 is out. This version is compatible with XMMS 1.2.0.      WARNING! This version changes the installation method. You no longer   have to patch the XMMS source tree. Check the install guide below.     _________________________________________________________________   Current status   The code has developed such that few problems are now reported; the   main problems are due to systematic problems related to shared memory   and Glib/GTK. A few features are still to be added (as per TODO   list). Development is done under SPARC Solaris 7, but has been   reported to work succesfully on both x86 Solaris and older versions.     _________________________________________________________________   Download   Current version is 0.6.4; Download via http at    http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/staff/jr/comp/unix/xmms/xmms-solaris-0.6.4.tar.gz   or via FTP at ftp://ftp.scms.rgu.ac.uk/pub/staff/jr/xmms-solaris-0.6.4.tar.gz      Binary packages still have to be made. Ideally, these will be set up   so that you can install the bare XMMS installation and then add   plugins, eg, esd, openGL as you want.     _________________________________________________________________   Installation   To install, perform the following steps:    1. Download XMMS.    2. Extract the archive using eg gzip -dc xmms-1.2.0.tar.gz | tar xvf       -    3. Compile using ./configure as normal (full instructions in the XMMS       README file) (note: you may want to add "-O2" to CFLAGS; this       halfs CPU usage)    4. Download the plugin (see above).    5. Extract the archive using eg gzip -dc xmms-solaris-0.6.4.tar.gz |       tar xvf -    6. Compile using ./configure. This will grab the path from       xmms-config so you shouldn't need to pass any parameters unless it       can't find xmms.    7. run make;make install    8. start xmms; it should find the plugin automatically, although you       may have to set the output plugin under preferences as it defaults       to the disk writer plugin.     _________________________________________________________________   Known problems  Running errors       * GTK/GLIB require a lot of shared memory, more than the 1MB default       under Solaris. A symptom of this is a 'shmat' error on starting       XMMS. This causes the player to not work. To fix this, add the       following to /etc/system:        set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 8388608        set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000        set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 0x100       You will have to reboot for this to take effect. Note that while       the kernel will now allocate up to 8MB of shared memory, this is a       maximum and it will only allocate this much if it needs to. In       short, it's better to overestimate the amount of shared memory       required as you will have to reboot to increase it.       An alternative option (courtesy of Mark Weel) is to configure gtk+       using --enable-shm=no. This allows installation of XMMS without       superuser privelages.     * setuid execution (for realtime priority) doesn't work as well as       it might; Solaris won't load dynamically linked libraries for suid       scripts (sensible, really) so you might have to ln -s the libs in       /usr/lib. It may be possible to hard code the library paths, but I       haven't tried this. ldd xmms will show which libraries are       required. Remember to check plugins! esd plugin also requires       libesd.     * I've had reports of XMMS crashing under some machines with the       following error (or similar):    Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)      serial 108 error_code 8 request_code 2 minor_code 0       This seems to happen on machines with Creator 3D (or other       high-end) graphics cards. Dan Szkola provided the following       information:     ...this was a problem with the default depth of the display.     Changing the default depth to 24 fixed this problem.     This can be accomplished by putting the following line in     /etc/dt/config/Xservers        :0   Local local@console /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fbs/ffb0 defdepth 24       For those using xinit, this solucion courtesy of Roman Shterenzon:    I just forgot that when I turned away from CDE, the    /etc/dt/config/Xservers wasn't used anymore.    I created file .xserverrc :    #!/bin/sh    exec /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fbs/ffb0 defdepth 24    and voila, everything works.     * Once XMMS has started, playing a song will result in no output. In       all probability, this is because you are using the Disk Writer       plugin; select the preferences and change output plugin to the       Solaris one.     * CD audio might be a bit cruddy to begin with after a reboot; this       can be fixed by starting /usr/openwin/bin/audiocontrol and setting       the record settings.     * Some people have been getting errors like this:     $ xmms     ld.so.1: xmms: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/lib/xmms/Output/libdisk_writer.so: symbol __udivdi3: referenced symbol not found     ld.so.1: xmms: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/lib/xmms/Input/libmpg123.so: symbol __umoddi3: referenced symbol not found       There are two fixes for this; the first is from the XMMS forum:    This problem went away when I ran ./configure as follows:    LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.7/2.95.2 -lgcc" ./configure       The other is from Todd Goodman; basically, the problem is that       your setup is picking up the Solaris ld instead of the bintools       version. Install bintools and make sure that /usr/local/bin is       before /usr/ccs/bin in your path.     * CD playing doesn't work 'out of the box'. Here is a fix I found on       usenet:  This took me a while to figure out when I was using xmms; it seems to be  very counterintuitive.  In my .xmms/config file I have:  [CDDA]  device=/vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0  directory=/cdrom/  use_oss_mixer=FALSE  Later in the file, in the [xmms] section:  [xmms]  ...  filesel_path=/cdrom/  For some reason, you also seem to need to have the volume management daemon  running (vold).     * You can force xmms to only use the AUDIODEV variable. This is       useful for where you are using multiple machines with different       configurations or, more notably, you are working with SunRay       devices (which rely on AUDIODEV). Simply go to Preferences,       configure the Solaris plugin and select the check box marked       "Always use AUDIODEV environment variable".          If you have any problems, please mail me at jr@scms.rgu.ac.uk and I'll do   my best to help. I'm also interested to get any input files which don't work   under xmms-solaris but work ok under linux/FreeBSD. This will help me   find any bugs in the code. Do not mail me the files without giving me   simple mail first to see if I am working on the problem or not.     _________________________________________________________________   TODO     * Try to optimise code     * Make the behaviour on a busy audio device configurable (ie, wait       until free or simply bomb out).     * Possibly add audioamd(7d) support; this card only uses 8KHz, mono       8 bit a-law or mu-law samples, so it may use prohibitively large       amounts of CPU time to perform the translations.     * I've had reports of weirdness in Solaris 8, possibly due to the       new mixer stuff; this will be worked on once I have Solaris 8 (or       patches gratefully received!).