Here some help to make PulseAudio and Spring work together
Posted: 27 Jan 2011, 18:26
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 !
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 !
