No Lugaru sound on Ubuntu Karmic Koala (64-bit)?

[jbwiv]

Guys,

Lugaru works great otherwise, but I get no sound. What I do get is this:

$ ./lugaru
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy

I found an older pulse that referenced installing openal, but Karmic uses Pulseaudio so I'm not sure this applies. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jbwiv

[rudel_ic]

I think you need to emulate ALSA through pulseaudio for this, not sure right now though.

Check the pulseaudio system settings, there should be settings for what sound gets played through what.

Edit: and OpenAL works with pulseaudio (at least it did the last time I tinkered with OpenAL). So installing it shouldn't do you any harm.

[Wilbefast]

Got the same problem on 9.04 (Jaunty Jumbuck) 64-bit: sound sometimes plays, sometimes doesn't. Read: pulseaudio is a bitch, why can't we just use ALSA!? Jesus!

Oh wait that's right: f*** you Skype!

[bernard]

Run Lugaru with the command

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$ padsp ./lugaru  # or, put this in your launcher.

This emulates OSS (API calls made through reads and writes to the /dev/dsp device) and should give you glorious sound.


EDIT: You can use your system OpenAL too, of course. I had performance problems when I did that, unfortunately.

[Wilbefast]

Awesome Seems to work, although the sound sometimes worked for me before, so I may just have had a lucky break. For the launcher, to be more specific, change this:

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"/home/<your name>/lugaru/lugaru"

to this:

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padsp /home/<your name>/lugaru/lugaru

In other words, make sure you remove the quotes - I didn't at first, and couldn't figure out what the problem was