Icewm/icesound trouble on SuSE 8.2

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Are there any readers knowledgeable about running Icewm on SuSE 8.2? I
am getting consistent floating-point errors trying to start icesound,
whether I select OSS or ESD.

I've tried recompiling esound and icewm from source, but it changes
nothing. I've tested the sound files from every angle I know, and they
work everywhere but icesound, so I doubt there's file corruption.

Since esound works in Gnome 2, but not in XFce 3 or anywhere else, and
esdplay fails without esd running, I suspect it's actually something in
esound, but icesound won't work on OSS either. BTW, alsa is the default
in SuSE.

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SoftEdges wrote:

> Are there any readers knowledgeable about running Icewm on SuSE 8.2? I
> am getting consistent floating-point errors trying to start icesound,
> whether I select OSS or ESD.
>
> I've tried recompiling esound and icewm from source, but it changes
> nothing. I've tested the sound files from every angle I know, and they
> work everywhere but icesound, so I doubt there's file corruption.
>
> Since esound works in Gnome 2, but not in XFce 3 or anywhere else, and
> esdplay fails without esd running, I suspect it's actually something in
> esound, but icesound won't work on OSS either. BTW, alsa is the default
> in SuSE.
>
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I'll report the solution I stumbled across:

Compiling from latest sources (1.2.12), I am required to use this
precise command line input for it to work:

icesound --interface=ESD --sample-dir=/home/jeh/.icewm/sounds/

Note caps, etc. This after manually starting esd. Abbreviations, etc.
result in "Illegal instruction" error. Previously, even this did not
work, as I got only floating point errors. Thus, with this different
error, I felt I was somehow close, and tried a dozen different
commandline combinations until it worked.

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