Spring RTS Engine

When I run a singleplayer game using spring directly the sound works fine;

but when I launch from springlobby i get no sound

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10
and springlobby 0.63-0ubuntu1

springlobby is stealing your soundcard.
you may need to modify your ~/.asoundrc to use dmix to allow multiple applications to access the soundcard at once ?

how do I do that?

try http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix

Hmmm. I couldnt get the alsaplayer to play anything using the dmix plugin. But you are right that springlobby hijacks my soundcard.. even after I quit still no sound in anything!

old versions of SL uses SDL audio to access the sound card, make sure SDL audio is set to use alsa+dmix or pulseaudio, if it's set to OSS or alsa with direct card access, it will lock the sound card

if it's a recent version, everything i said applies instead for openal

Thanks for the continued help...

I have done a lot of searching on this topic and cannot understand what I have to do... I followed the instructions on the ALSA dmix wiki page, including creating .asoundrc and pasting in their content but I need to know how specifically to get springlobby to use dmix.

Thanks again in advance