Package: criticalmass Version: 1:1.0.0-1.5 Currently, critter(6) exits immediately (with the output MIME'd) should there be no accessible audio device available. Arguably, the “best common practice” for such software is to simple proceed without sound.
As a work-around, one may wish to explicitly redirect sound to /dev/null, like: $ SDL_AUDIODRIVER=disk SDL_DISKAUDIOFILE=/dev/null critter & -- FSF associate member #7257
INFO: Initializing Audio... ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default *ERROR*: Init Audio (Mixer): failed # No available audio device INFO: Shutting down... INFO: Saving Configuration to : /home/private/users/ivan/.critter/config.txt INFO: Saving hi-scores to /home/private/users/ivan/.critter/leaderboard INFO: Audio shutdown... INFO: Cleanup complete. Ready to Exit. INFO: ---------------------------------- INFO: Critical_Mass 1.0.0 - 13:53:54 May 19 2012 INFO: Copyright (C) 2001-2005 by Frank Becker INFO: Visit http://criticalmass.sourceforge.net INFO: ----------------------------------