[SOLVED] Slackware RazPi, Zoom & logs.

business_kid · 11-30-2022, 05:44 AM

This is really a pulseaudio query atm. I have Box64, which wants a pulseaudio server. Slackware doesn't run one, but uses a per-program instance, if I understand correctly. The thread is posted on the Slarm64 forum, but a good number of you guys have SBCs, so the link avoids double posting.

This box64 is like wine, but runs linux-x86_64 apps in Linux-Aarch64. Your command line is similar,

Code:

box64 /path/to/x86_64-program

I wrote a script to set some half a dozen variables, and run it to start zoom. So I could pass box64 an instance of pulseaudio perhaps, or start pulse as a system wide daemon. Would the sky fall in if I did that?

I have the ZoomLauncher diagnostic output On pastebin but it's very clean beside anything I've seen from wine, which always seems more hysterical and paranoid.

LuckyCyborg · 11-30-2022, 08:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

This is really a pulseaudio query atm. I have Box64, which wants a pulseaudio server. Slackware doesn't run one, but uses a per-program instance, if I understand correctly

Slackware have a PulseAudio server and it runs as per user (login) session instance. As user side daemon.

Also, permit me to not believe that a programmer can be such an idiot to demand a global PulseAudio server for his software.

Hence, I guess that you have a grave misunderstanding about how this Box64 works.

business_kid · 11-30-2022, 11:15 AM

I'll certainly permit you, I'm simply passing on the error it gave me. Box64 is built around the Debian RPi OS which comes with systemd ans a system-wide pulseaudio daemon. I've started a system-wide thing pulseaudio on my RazPi. It's a pure waste of time hacking it and I'll dutifully inform all and sundry when that particular part of the sky falls in.

business_kid · 12-01-2022, 08:02 AM

For those with RazPis or similar SBCs, the linux-86_64 Zoom now works for me on Aarch64 under box64. Max ram required at startup exceeds 4G. Perhaps that is because box64 is emulating a lot of libs. Box64 is vaguely like wine - you have to get used to it's own weird way of doing things, and there's a lot less documentation there to help you. I used a swapfile for the memory. If you had 5G available, it would probably manage.

Box64 is on Github, and to compile it you may have to doctor the headers as outlined here.

business_kid · 12-08-2022, 09:41 AM

Further to this, I had a few old editions of Zoom

Code:

bash-5.1$ ls -lh /mnt/hd/LinuxArchives/zoom*
-rw-r--r-- 1 dec users 125M Jun 12 12:31 /mnt/hd/LinuxArchives/zoom-5.10.7-x86_64.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 dec users 137M Nov 28 10:11 /mnt/hd/LinuxArchives/zoom-5.12.6.173-x86_64.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 dec users 126M Jul 27 11:37 /mnt/hd/LinuxArchives/zoom_x86_64-5.11.3-3882.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 dec users  55M Feb  4  2022 /mnt/hd/LinuxArchives/zoom_x86_64-5.9.3-1911.tar

You'll notice 5.9.x is just over half the size of 5.10.x. I downgraded zoom to 5.9.x, which still has all basic features. It's much smarter, I lost about 2G of memory overhead so swap is no longer required.

It provides an insight into windoze programming techniques - 2G of crud hogging ram and doing nothing!