[SOLVED] Audacious OpenGL Spectrum Analyzer

Jeebizz · 11-02-2016, 07:22 PM

Trying to run the OpenGL Spectrum Analyzer under Audacious, and it just crashes:

Code:

 
slackuser@slackmachine:~$ audacious
The program 'audacious' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 4620 error_code 8 request_code 153 minor_code 5)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
WARNING main.cc:319 [main_cleanup]: exit() called unexpectedly; skipping normal cleanup.
slackuser@slackmachine:~$

This is just stock Audacious with what is included(OpenGL Analyzer) - I am running the NVIDIA blob and I do have the 32-bit libraries and OpenGL installed - so what gives?

chris.willing · 11-02-2016, 08:20 PM

Do other glx apps work e.g. glxgears?

I've found there can be problems if the mesa package is updated/reinstalled over an earlier nvidia blob installation. Reinstalling the nvidia blob has always fixed that problem for me.

chris

Jeebizz · 11-02-2016, 08:40 PM

They work:

Code:

slackuser@slackmachine:~$ glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
2 frames in 6.0 seconds =  0.335 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.094 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.000 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.000 FPS
slackuser@slackmachine:~$ ^C
slackuser@slackmachine:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4

And I did not mess with any of the mesa packages. After doing a clean install of 14.2 , I installed the NVIDIA blob, THEN I did go multilib but if that were the case, other programs such as Google Earth would not be working, but I am able to run Google Earth and AFAIK it depends on mesa too right?

chris.willing · 11-02-2016, 09:12 PM

I just tried and found the same problem and its definitely not due to the similar mesa/nvidia thing I've seen previously. I also just tried 32bit & 64bit VM's (no nvidia blobs) and it works fine there.

Jeebizz · 11-02-2016, 09:39 PM

So per your post, it just does not like NVIDIA.

I don't particularly want to switch to the Nouveau driver - I rather like the NVIDIA utilities provided with the blob, and everything works the way I like it - plus I don't know how it will affect my double monitor(reflected) setup that I have.

chris.willing · 11-03-2016, 12:51 AM

I downloaded & built the latest version (3.8) using the existing build scripts for xap/audacious & xap/audacious-plugins. At first the result was exactly the same when clicking the OpenGL Spectrum Analyzer checkbox - crashed audacious. However, I had noticed on their website that an optional Qt interface could be enabled by adding '--enable-qt' to the configure line of the build script. I rebuilt with --enable-qt and ran it as 'audacious --qt' and in that mode, the OpenGL Spectrum Analyzer checkbox worked as expected - no crash and nice looking opengl visualization.

I then went back to see if the existing version (3.7.2) would work the same way but the audacious-plugins-3.7.2 would not compile with --enable-qt.

So, short of fixing the actual bug, the workaround is to build version 3.8 with the --enable-qt option and always use the --qt option at runtime.

chris

Jeebizz · 11-03-2016, 01:05 AM

Its a solution - I could just recompile using slackbuilds for 3.7.2 - Just too lazy right now

; then I have to figure out the shortcuts for my particular WM(LXDE) - since I don't feel like running audacious in a terminal, seems unnecessary to me. Overall I consider that a solution though.