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OpenArena => Technical Snafus => Topic started by: Rajoy on November 22, 2008, 01:37:23 PM



Title: No sound in OA when audio player working
Post by: Rajoy on November 22, 2008, 01:37:23 PM
In Linux, when another app is working with sound, i.e. a player plays it, or Opera has played a sound, I have no sound in OA. I need to close every app that made a sound before I can get sounds in OA. This is very annoying. I assume that like some other old apps, it tries to take the audio device exclusively. What can I do to avoid this?


Title: Re: No sound in OA when audio player working
Post by: christooss on November 23, 2008, 05:26:43 AM
You have to install either Pulseaudio (works great on arch linux, default in ubuntu (maybe it needs some tweaking)

The main problem is openal!

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Configuration_of_OpenAL_for_PulseAudio

Check this link maybe it siutes you distro to. Another option is use jack or artsd.

Which distro do you have?


Title: Re: No sound in OA when audio player working
Post by: Rajoy on November 24, 2008, 02:50:01 AM
Thanks, I'll try.