No sound in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) with Pulseaudio

[Brownieboy]

Running Nexuiz (latest version available from Ubuntu repositories) with Pulseaudio, and can get no sound from it at all. Does Nexuiz work with Pulseaudio? If not, is there some command switch that lets Nexuiz bypass Pulseaudio?

FIY, have other games (Quake 4 etc) working with Pulseaudio fine.

[Psychcf]

works for me.
Is there something running in the background that may be locking the audio device such as banshee?

[Brownieboy]

@[TSA] Psychcf,

Thanks for the reply.

Can't see Banshee in System Monitor. And am not sure what else might be the culprit.

But from my (extremely) limited knowledge of PulseAudio, I thought that the whole idea of it is that no one app can lock the sound device. Or have I got it completely wrong?

[:)]

Not sure if the version in the Ubuntu repositories starts the SDL version by default or not, but if it does then installing libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio should let Nexuiz interface with pulseaudio properly.

[Brownieboy]

libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio is installed. When I run nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh from a console I get this in the output:

Failed to open the audio device! (No available audio device)
S_Startup: sound output initialization FAILED
S_Startup: SndSys_Init failed.

[Taiyo.uk]

Is alsa set up to use pulseaudio?

alsamixer should show one slider called "pulse" if it is.

[Brownieboy]

Confirmed. Here's how alsamixer looks.... approximately! Only one slider present.


Card: PulseAudio │
│ Chip: PulseAudio │
│ View: [Playback] Capture All │
│ Item: Master │
│ │
│ ┌──┐ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │
│ ├──┤ │
│ │OO│ │
│ └──┘ │
│ 100<>100 │
│ < Master >

[Taiyo.uk]

Wee-ard. Is SDL_mixer installed?

[Brownieboy]

Wee-ard. Is SDL_mixer installed?

Don't think so. Typing SDL_mixer in a console does nothing anyway.

[Taiyo.uk]

Wee-ard. Is SDL_mixer installed?

Don't think so. Typing SDL_mixer in a console does nothing anyway.

No, it's not an application it's one of the SDL libraries. It's often required for sound in SDL applications. I'm unsure what the Debian package name is exactly.

Do these files exist on your system? (replace lib64 with lib if you're on 32 bit)

/usr/lib64/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libSDL_mixer.so