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- (The name is not a mispelling).
-
- - How to compile it ?
- Edit the Makefile and use make.
-
- - 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. DON'T DO THAT !!! I was young and stupid when I
- suggested that... there are security holes bigger than the whole moon in
- that program, installed suid.
-
- - 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.
- Hps are not necessarily installed with audio. There are several ports to
- hpux working with various models of the audio hw. Your mileage may vary.
-
- - 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.
- From Irix 5.3 on, the audio package has been rebundled BACK into the
- developper's package. Upgrading might be a solution.
- The other problem with sgi is that their standard make is not quite powerful
- enough to handle macro substitution inside macro substitution. Up to you to
- write a good Makefile (and maybe send it to me) or compile tracker by hand...
- Installing gnumake on your machine is also a solution.
- Don't forget to copy the Sgi/config.h to config.h, or else your modules will
- sure sound weird !
-
- - 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
- and gcc. Speed options may not be necessary on your machine,
- but they help sparc 5/10/20 to output sound at higher frequencies.
-
- - I can't get it to compile on my solaris sparc.
- You should use the special target `solaris' which is a full port to solaris 2.2
- by Dave Tiller.
-
- - I can't get it to compile on my PC with soundblaster.
- 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 get it to compile on my NeXTstep machine.
- Ask Rolf Grossman...
-
- - I can't get it to work on my DECstation.
- The code use a package called AudioFile. It is a public domain audio package
- available from DEC crl.dec.com aka 192.58.206.2, /pub/DEC/AF.
- the software will run on a number of platforms: Sun/NeXT/SGI/DEC.
- The AF_audio.c code sends the sound directly to the AudioFile server.
- There is but a slight problem! It Seg Faults when closing the Audio
- connection...dunno why, haven't been able to get rid of it!
- Uses 2 environment variables:
- AUDIOFILE - the name of the audio server to connect to for mono
- playback. And for the Left Channel in stereo playback. eg. "machine:0"
- AUDIORIGHT - the name of the audio server for the Right Channel when
- playing stereo.
- This code is only tested for DEC 5000/20, 5000/25, Ultrix 4.2, Ultrix 4.3....
- so I can't vouch for how well it'll work on other machines!!!!
-
- - 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 some previous version.
- Send me some email !
-
- Marc Espie (espie@ens.fr)
-