Here some help to make PulseAudio and Spring work together

[NollyFlip]

Hello everyone,

First excuse my english (I'm French).

I had some troubles with spring on Linux Ubuntu 10.04 LTR (64 bits).

There were no sound at all, and when I started a game made the sound in Audacious to stop, I had to restart the pulseaudio server to make it work again (I like listen music when playing).

So I tried to desinstall pulseaudio, but this way I would have lost the ability to play simultaneous sounds together (music and systems sound, youtube...) and lost the equalizer, and other stuff.
I tried and it still didn't worked. I even tried the Jackd sound server, no more success.

So I've read that Spring use OpenAl for the sound, so I tried to install the OpenAL-Soft configuration utility with the install manager. The name of the packate to install is :

alsoft-conf

And then I launched this application with the console.
In the "backend" tab, I kept only "ALSA" on the left column.

Then i saved, launched spring and it worked. Spring sound music + everything with pulseaudio (in fact, ALSA sound is redirected to the PulseAudio layer when installed)

Here some explanation about how sound works on linux (French) :
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/son

I think this is a better solution than desinstall PulseAudio, people having trouble on Linux may try this.

Hope it will help !

[hoijui]

sounds good.
thanks for the info!

i added it here:
http://springrts.com/wiki/FAQ:trouble#I ... an_i_do.3F

(it is a Wiki, btw)