[ SOLVED ] Sound problem, how to use pulse with Unreal Tournament

[mweishaa]

OK, I had Unreal Tournament working before my upgrade to 10.10, now the sound isn't working.
I get the following error...

Bound to ALAudio.so
open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
OpenAL Audio subsystem initialized.

I did try launching ut using padsp and the sound works.... but is delayed by .5 seconds, which makes it really annoying.

Anyone have any ideas on what else I can try?

[FreshFlesh]

Re: Sound problem, how to use pulse with Unreal Tournament

As far as I know (and I might be wrong) Kubuntu 10.10 uses pulse-audio.
Since ALAudio comes from what I am guessing (again) Alsa-audio ... I suppose there is the issue.
Have u installed Kubuntu 10.10 in the / and kept the /home unformated with the game on it ?
Understand where I'm going? Old settings on top of a new OS ... could be the case...
Perhaps reinstall or enable ALSA as your main audio

(THAT IS ONLY IF MY GUESSES ARE RIGHT!!!)

[mweishaa]

Re: Sound problem, how to use pulse with Unreal Tournament

update:

I was able to configure my ~/.openalrc file like this:
(define devices '(alsa arts esd null))
(define alsa-device "default")
(define speaker-num 2)
(define sampling-rate 44100)

and I get rid of my error when I start up unreal:
Bound to ALAudio.so
OpenAL Audio subsystem initialized.

But alas... still no sound.

I neglected to mention that I am on 64-bit. I tried to launch unreal using aoss, but got this error:
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored

Seems it's an aoss bug with 64-bit:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ss/+bug/173487

So I am still stuck. I guess I'll go install all of the alsa packages I don't have in hopes one of them is the key.
NOTE: did run into this already:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
phonon-backend-xine: Depends: libxine1 (>= 1.1.8) but it is not going to be installed
liboss-salsa-asound2: Conflicts: libasound2


Update: Installed some backports.... now sound doesn't work at all. Uninstalled them, same thing. I get a Dummy Output device under System Multimedia Phonon ... *sigh*
Update2: somehow my snd-hda-intel module got unloaded... was removed from /etc/modules.conf.... added it back in, rebooted, and now sound's back - just not with UT yet.

[mweishaa]

Re: Sound problem, how to use pulse with Unreal Tournament

Figured it out.

In my UnrealTournament.ini, I changed it over to the generic audio from alaudio
#AudioDevice=ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem
AudioDevice=Audio.GenericAudioSubsystem

and then launched the game with padsp and the sound works with no delay.

I had tried switching to GenericAudio before, but launching it normally without using padsp. I got no sound, so I didn't pursue that option. padsp and alaudio must not play nicely together.