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Date:      Wed, 19 Dec 2018 06:49:37 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
Cc:        Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RPI3 sound for www/chromium, was Re: How much memory to compile www/chromium?
Message-ID:  <r2ee-rrpq-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20181219014342.GA42859@www.zefox.net> (bob prohaska's message of "Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:43:42 -0800")
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bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 11:41:44PM +0000, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
>
>> bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > Setting MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT=2 allowed www/chromium to compile successfully over
>> > several days. The -DBATCH option was used, in hopes it'd fetch the right options. 
>> 
>> Use "make config-recursive" before you start. It will present to you upfront all
>> the option screens that would appear during the build.
>> 
>> I've noticed it sometimes misses some, if you add some dependency in one of the menus.
>> So to be sure, once it's finished its run, if you've made any option changes, run
>> it again, and again and again etc.. until you no longer get menus popping up.
>> 
>
> That's a good idea provided one knows beforehand which options to select. I very
> seldom know which options apply, especially on the first try. After a few failures
> my guesses sometimes improve....
>
> In the case of www/chromium it looks like the sound support is wrong, but so far
> it isn't obvious which sound option is correct. Would anybody hazard a guess
> as to what sound support works on a Pi3?
>
> The clearest hint so far is a report of
> ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:835:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Cannot open device /dev/dsp
> when starting up chrome.

According to https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222980 sound(4)
was enabled by default only on x86 archs.



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