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- (The name is not a mispelling).
-
- - How to compile it ?
- Just make machine to build it all, and make install after you've decided
- where you want to put it.
-
- - It isn't fast enough.
- If you can, try to coerce root into installing it under his name, with
- a setuid.. Then tracker will renice itself to -15, which should solve most
- of your problems.
-
- - I can't get any sound out of my machine.
- Check that it is configured properly. Most sparcs/sgis have an independant
- software volume control. The sparc has a software switch between headphones
- and loudspeaker too. Get sure your audio output is getting where you want.
-
- - I still don't get any sound.
- Make sure you have some audio hardware.
-
- - I can't get it to compile on my silicon graphics.
- Maybe you don't have any audio software. If it doesn't find audio
- include files/libraries, that's a good bet.
-
-
- - I can't get it to compile on my sparc.
- If you don't have acc (ansi c compiler), tracker also works ok with old cc.
- I haven't been able to make it run with gcc, on the other hand (too much work
- for too little result). The option -fast means `use the right options to get
- it to run as fast as possible'. -Bstatic follows the same spirit. It might
- not be necessary on your machine, but it helps sparc 10 to output sound at
- higher frequencies.
-
- - I can't get it to compile on my PC with unix
- Perfectly normal. I don't have any PC to test it with, as the original PC
- code was written by someone else. I've tried to keep it mostly intact, but
- there might be some trivial mistake in soundblaster_audio.c.
- Also, you need to modify termio.c. I think it has to do with getche() or
- something like it, but I don't really want to know.
- Anyhow, if you write the necessary patch, please send it my way.
-
- - I can't get it to compile on my PC with linux.
- Ask hasvolai@cc.helsinki.fi (Hannu Savolainen).
-
- - I can't change the volume of the sound.
- That's intentional. There are other programs that do that quite well.
- What you really want is an audio control panel. There are some nifty ones
- around, just search carefully. There is no need for tracker to support variable
- volume.
-
- - The sound output seems hashed.
- Your machine isn't running fast enough for the quality you're trying to get.
- If you don't have stereo output, don't forget to specify mono.
- Get rid of oversample first, this is a big cpu-eater. Then get rid of -show
- as well. If that doesn't work, you'll have to revert to a smaller frequency.
- tracker is normally aware of the current frequency on the sgi and sparcs,
- so if you have a control panel that allows it, change the frequency. You don't
- have to restart tracker (usually).
-
- - There are some ``not supported'' messages from time to time.
- tracker doesn't support the whole set of protracker commands, so it tells
- you when it doesn't play something the way it's supposed to be played.
-
- - tracker stops when playing some files.
- Try -tolerant. If it still doesn't work, send a bug report.
-
- - This module doesn't sound like it should.
- Check that. be sure you were using the right player on an amiga. If you
- still have something weird, you may have a bug. Try e-mailing me.
-
- - when tracker exits, my terminal is in some funky mode.
- Shouldn't happen anymore. It definitely did in the previous version.
- Send me some email !
-
- Marc Espie (espie@ens.fr)
-