[solved] Sound issues on linux

2beers · Post by **2beers** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:27 pm

Hi guys

I play your wonderful nicely improved armagetron on linux (ubuntu 5.10+gnome). Unfortunatley i have little problems with the sound.
I can either hear the game sound - or have system sounds.

Imho that strongly indicates that armagetron doesn't support alsa, esd or arts, but sticks with oss?

So as AA is pretty new i would b quite surprised if it doesn't support one of the newer (alsa, jack, or even esd) soundserver systems. I just wasn't able to find it anywhere in the ingame menu.

Did i miss something or is there a special command i have to start AA with? Or do u offer a plugin for the sound issue?

Thanks in advance,
regards

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klax · Post by **klax** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:36 pm

This feature is sticked to the version of libsdl you have installed.
By default I believe Ubuntu installs libsdl with oss support.

Take a look at these packages to get support for alsa, esd, ... installing the corresponding package:
libsdl1.2debian-alsa
libsdl1.2debian-arts
libsdl1.2debian-esd
libsdl1.2debian-nas
libsdl1.2debian-oss

You should also take a look at the sound system used by GNOME and selected in Administration->Multimedia menu or something (sorry I'm at job right now).

2beers · Post by **2beers** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:27 pm

Hola klax
Mui bien - muchas grazias!

Seems to work - i installed the alsa lib (oss was installed) as i asume alse is the most recent working servermodul? And alsa emulates oss - so i guess i shouldnt have any trobles...
thanks again!