never had any sound in my clients

[karl]

Linux :

The clients compile and create two binaries - cfsndserv and cfsndserv_alsa9 - .

I have installed the sound archive from the sourceforge repository and they play fine as

bash-3.00# for i in *.raw; do
> [ -f "$i" ] || continue
> echo "$i"
> aplay -t raw "$i"
> sleep 2s
> done
blip.raw
Playing raw data 'blip.raw' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
boink2.raw
Playing raw data 'boink2.raw' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
bugle_charge.raw
< snip >

The alsa versioning is like 0.4.x, 0.5.x, 0.9.x, 1.0.x . My Box is running three heavily updated minimalist Puppy Linux in traditional installations to HDD on 20 GB partitions with 7-10GB in /usr . My alsa versions are 1.0.20 and 1.0.23 .
--disable-alsa9 fails because alsa is meant even older alsa-0.5 and alsa9 newer alsa-0.9 as i could find out on the net . Even implementing the 7 missing #defines from alsa-driver-0.5 and 1 missing from alsa-libs-0.5 makes gcc not complain about that they are missing, but the final link to libasound fails (of course) .

Now that i read cfsndserv.c from the actual source of 1.70.0 i find this :

/**
* Music is not supported by the legacy (non-SDL_mixer) sound systems.
*
* @param name A name of a song to play that does not include anything like
* path or file extensions. It is up to this function to map the
* name to a file.
*/
void play_music(const char* name) {

#ifdef SOUND_DEBUG
fprintf(stderr, "play_music: no music support for this sound system.\n");
fflush(stderr);
#endif

return;
}

My question is : since when or what version of the client sound stopped working or what do i have to do to make it work.

# Crossfire sound server settings
# Please note, that not everything will work

stereo: 0
bits: 8
signed: 0
frequency: 11025
buffers: 100
buflen: 1024
simultaneously: 4

[Leaf]

Sounds were very limited in the non-Java based clients.

Sound in these clients have not worked very many, many releases.

Sounds were so limited that many did not even use them so when they actually "stopped working" is unknown or uncertain.

Where to start in fixing them?

Good question...