Sound problem in Ubuntu 11.10

Luke · #1 11-07-2011, 11:00 PM

i'm on Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit.
Altitude runs fine, at the menus sound is working properly.
When I enter a game, sounds stop.

Initially I thought it was just a driver problem, then I installed all sort of packages to try and solve this.
In an old topic here in the forums a user suggested some packages, that in my case did not do the job.

Attached are log file (showing some errors) and system info.

Thanks in advance for your help. =)

Karl · #2 11-08-2011, 05:21 PM

Did you install Altitude using the Altitude.sh from our download page?

If so try the following:

1) Use Ubuntu software installer to install the latest OpenJDK-6 (7 should work too)
2) Open a terminal window
3) Navigate to the altitude directory (cd /home/luke/altitude)
4) type "mv jre jre_old"
5) Launch altitude

This should force Altitude to use OpenJDK java instead of the bundled Sun JVM.

You can also try running the game from:
http://altitudegame.com/playnow

Luke · #3 11-08-2011, 06:17 PM

Yes, I used the .sh installer.

OpenJDK-6 was already up-to-date, and I had already renamed the jre folder (alti wasn't even starting leaving it with the default name).

Launching from website does not solve the problem, either.

idk · #4 11-09-2011, 10:22 AM

I got the same problem here on Debian. But Im pretty sure its because Im using ALSA instead of PulseAudio. If I remember correctly, it worked fine for me with a clean install of Ubuntu like 2 years ago.

Karl · #5 11-09-2011, 04:23 PM

You could try nimblygames.com/test/altitude.sh it uses a software implementation of OpenAL.

Luke · #6 11-10-2011, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by idk

I got the same problem here on Debian. But Im pretty sure its because Im using ALSA instead of PulseAudio. If I remember correctly, it worked fine for me with a clean install of Ubuntu like 2 years ago.

Yep, on the previous ubuntu release it was working for me, too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karl

You could try nimblygames.com/test/altitude.sh it uses a software implementation of OpenAL.

Done. The problem persists. Could it be just a bug somewhere in the oneiric ocelot release?

Luke · #7 11-17-2011, 08:24 PM

Tried some more packages/driver.. still nothing.

Any other ideas?