sorry for the wait, here is my environment summary

device: old asus u36sd laptop

lspci:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)

upgraded from stable to whitehole

doas gpasswd -a (user) audio
doas rc-update add sndiod default
doas rc-service sndiod start
alsamixer (verify sound is not muted)

rc-status:
sndiod             [  crashed  ]

summary - sound initially not working, after running command sndiod manually from the terminal the sound works, it still say crashed in rc-status but the sound continuously work fine until reboot

evironment:
lumina + spacemanfm-git (external)
iceweasel-uxp browser
used mpv/smplayer

testing:
lumina default logout sound theme works
playing some video/music works
playing some online videos works (sometime crashed)

some might related packages:

extra/alsa-lib 1.2.3.2-1 [installed]
    An alternative implementation of Linux kernel sound support
extra/alsa-sndio 0.2-5 [installed]
    ALSA PCM to play audio on sndio servers
extra/alsa-topology-conf 1.2.3-1 [installed]
    ALSA topology configuration files
extra/alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.3-1 [installed]
    ALSA Use Case Manager configuration (and topologies)
extra/alsa-utils 1.2.4-1 [installed]
    Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
extra/zita-alsa-pcmi 0.3.2-1 [installed]
    The successor of clalsadrv, provides easy access to ALSA PCM devices.
extra/libsndio 1.8.0-1 [installed]
    A small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project (client
    library)
extra/sndio 1.8.0-1 [installed]
    A small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project
extra/xvidcore 1.3.7-1 [installed]
    XviD is a free MPEG-4 video codec
extra/libmpeg2 0.5.1-6 [installed]
    Library for decoding MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams.
extra/ffmpeg 2:4.3.2-1 [installed]
    Complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
extra/gst-plugins-base 1.18.3-1 [installed]
    Multimedia graph framework - base plugins
extra/gst-plugins-base-libs 1.18.3-1 [installed]
extra/mpg123 1.26.4-1 [installed]
    Console based real time MPEG Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3

Well, its not the only problem, I will clarify... I cannot make alsa work with alsa-sndio installed.

Here is the git-commit for sndio: https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/~team/ … c4d4047624

Okay, thanks for the feedback. For all game-enthusiasts using Hyperbola 0.4 right now: Please add the following to your .xsession and .bashrc:

export SDL_AUDIODRIVER="sndio"

The problem about gmixerctl: This is exclusively done for OpenBSD and the rcinit. For now this is not compatible with HyperRC / OpenRC or Runit itself. You could install that for sure, but this module is making also modifications towards the initialization of sndio, which is done at Hyperbola within sndio.confd (OpenRC) or conf (Runit). The error is coming from the naming of the tk-modules so this also needs more modifications within the python-code itself as also our version of Python. Here is the approval tk-modules are not compiled within:

Python 3.8.5 (default, Mar 13 2021, 21:43:20)
[GCC 8.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/tkinter/__init__.py", line 36, in <module>
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'

Sndio still works, one side note, I didn't really realize gmixerctl was so... well... difficult to implement.

Perhaps a cli mode like alsa has would be good to implement somewhere down the road?

like alsamixer command, only obviously it would have per application support, 127 max volume, etc...

Again though, somewhere down the road, not now...

Thanks for adding focuswriter and fixing sndio  + help with wpa_supplicant.

sndio works fine now, thanks Throgh.

wifi connect - thx a lot

everything in place now! 0.4 is *GOLDEN*

Question for 1561: https://issues.hyperbola.info/index.php … sk_id=1561
Can somebody approve this is working now? I have not the corresponding hardware here available.

You know that you should have a further look onto the configuration for ALSA and sndio in combination? Don't know the details for your soundcard especially, but the file .asoundrc is from my point of view absolutely mandatory. Therefore: https://github.com/Duncaen/alsa-sndio/b … /README.md

And as I've said: runit is for sure a task to be researched, but doing that cannot be my task alone. That's absolutely impossible for me to do as individual person. Not to be rude, just to make that clear that everyone can help here. Perhaps doing another thread with QA-routines? Taking care of services, step by step. It is not helpful to guess the problem-area. Especially: Is there a problem with qemu? What's about hp-lip? Step by step, but when 0.4 should be ready we need to do this together.

qemu is only meant generic. And for sure: You say not even enough, please more to give the problems a voice. At best with logs as you did and do. Thanks for all of this and that's also meant for all interested. Help us testing.

Or you add the group kvm for example and add yourself into? Just a guess, not meant sarcastic as I'm not focussed onto this for now, but yes I have seen the warning of the missing group at OpenRC-startup. But this kind of problem would be for real nothing to do in ALPHA-state - when this is the point I have written now. Perhaps you can tryout and give us feedback, so it is possible to measure the point for an issue and on what state it should be solved for now.

Added concurrent issues for further bug-hunting.