Dan Mick's Little Shop of Hints

Wednesday June 08, 2005

Removing silly warnings from xmms's libSolaris.so output plugin

Here's a procedure for patching /opt/sfw/lib/xmms/Output/libSolaris.so, to get rid of the warnings that appear on the console if you're using a soundcard xmms doesn't know by name:

** WARNING **: solaris output: Unknown sound card type: SUNW,audio810

** WARNING **: solaris output: Assuming capable of the bitstream

If you get those, and are annoyed, and don't want to be bothered rebuilding xmms with the latest plugin source, try this:

$ su -
# cd /opt/sfw/lib/xmms/Output
# cp libSolaris.so libSolaris.so.orig
# mdb -w libSolaris.so
> 442d?5B

0x442d:         ff      75      b0      8d      83 

If you don't see these values, stop now

> 442d?v e9 26 00 00 00
0x442d:         0xff    =       0xe9
0x442e:         0x75    =       0x26
0x442f:         0xb0    =       0x0
0x4430:         0x8d    =       0x0
0x4431:         0x83    =       0x0
> $q

Restart xmms, and you should be done. If anything goes wrong, of course, just copy libSolaris.so.orig back to libSolaris.so.

(What this does is to add a "jmp" around the two calls to g_warning() (really a #define for g_log()) for those two warnings.) ( Jun 08 2005, 11:47:32 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]