No sound

Anonono · Post by **Anonono** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:20 am

I'm running the latest version of ZSNES on Ubuntu 8.04, and I'm not getting any sound in any games. I've tried 32000hz and 8000hz. What things should I change?

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:56 am

first do you even have a soundcard installed? (properly that is.)

next try switching the drivers via the command line. RTFM for that.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:22 pm

There's a good chance that the repository is responsible for terribly managing this.

Try the binaries here - http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11513

If worst comes to worse, learn to compile ZSNES for yourself.

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:53 pm

probably just another guy who needs to use -ad <something or other> here... add that to the FAQ stuff already, gee.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:19 am

grinvader wrote:probably just another guy who needs to use -ad <something or other> here... add that to the FAQ stuff already, gee.

That's what I was trying to hint at, and I assumed it was already in the docs.

adventure_of_link wrote:next try switching the drivers via the command line. RTFM for that.

Except I forgot the command line switch.

In any case, once I can remember how it goes I'll add it to the FAQs.

Anonono · Post by **Anonono** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:14 am

Okay, I didn't understand any of that. Can you explain it like you were talking to a non-technical person?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:19 am

Anonono wrote:Okay, I didn't understand any of that. Can you explain it like you were talking to a non-technical person?

You shouldn't be using Linux (Ubuntu) if this really has to be explained to you...

To keep it simple...

My original suggestion is to download and execute the binary that "should" hopefully work on your system

Alternatively, you need to try to use a different sound driver for ZSNES to properly play audio.

You need to run a console/terminal, and type in "zsnes -?" w/o the quotes into it and see what options/parameters you have for the "-ad" switch.

So, running ZSNES on ALSA should be like "zsnes -ad alsa" w/o the quotes (assuming alsa is one of the listed options).

fearpi · Post by **fearpi** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:38 pm

There is a problem with the zsnes package in the Ubuntu repositories. I've just compiled the source from zsnes.com myself and sound works (relatively) fine.