Successfully installed instantplayer | public beta 1 SuSE rpm on Gentoo ;)

[peschler]

Hi guys!

I successfully installed the public beta 1 SuSE package on my gentoo box.
Using the rpm2tar command i converted the rpm to a tar package:

Code:

rpm2tar Instant_Player-SuSE-2.0.0_beta1.i586.rpm

Then as root:

Code:

cd /
tar path/to/Instant_Player-SuSE-2.0.0_beta1.i586.tar

This will untar the instantplayer files to /opt/instantReality.

You can test if the command line player sav works like this:

Code:

/opt/instantReality/bin/sav /opt/instantReality/share/resources/Splash.wrl

If this presents you a nice rotating beta logo you are lucky! I wasn't because i was missing some libraries.
* freealut
* libexpat
I emerged freealut-1.0.1 and checked for libexpat which was already installed. Unfortunately the instantplayer executables are link against libexpat.so.1 and my gentoo installation just provided libexpat.so.0. So i created a symbolic link:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1

and voila!

Still some issues with the sound, but hey

Thumbs up guys, nice work 

[jbehr]

I successfully installed the public beta 1 SuSE package on my gentoo box.

We will upload as simple tgz version the this week.

Still some issues with the sound, but hey

We do not access any linux sound-api directly but only by using OpenAL
(www.openal.org)

google for .openalrc to see some config example:
my $HOME/.openalrc has a single line:

(define devices '(alsa native))

could you please try to reconfigure you openal?

best regards and thanks for the reports
  johannes
Thumbs up guys, nice work 

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[peschler]

We will upload as simple tgz version the this week.

That would be even nicer

We do not access any linux sound-api directly but only by using OpenAL
(www.openal.org)

could you please try to reconfigure you openal?

Ok. I changed my ~/.openalrc to look like this:

Code:

(define devices '(alsa))
(define alsa-out-device "front")

"front" is one of my so called ALSA pcm devices. You can get a list of available PCM devices using:

Code:

aplay -L

Using that setting the test_sound.x3d works fine 
I still have some crackles which are not present in the original file but this may be due to the soundcard driver (currently i'm using the onboard chipset). I' going to test the sound with a external usb-audio interface.

Thanks for the quick reply.