This was bothering me too and I tracked down the issue. There is a debian patch that fixes a typo in 'resource.py' to correctly set the right variable if the sound system is disabled. The issue is that the sound system is never enabled by that point, so the patch effectively disables sound for all users!
An easy fix for this is to simply delay this check until when sounds are
requested. It's kind of ugly, but it works fine and restores sound to
the game.
The patch is pretty simple so I'll just paste it here. I have no
experience with debian packaging/patches/etc so someone else is going to
have to get this applied correctly to the package.
As a side note I am currently running 1.4-1 from testing.
--- lightyears-1.4.orig/code/resource.py 2014-06-07 16:58:05.000000000
+0000
+++ lightyears-1.4/code/resource.py 2014-06-07 16:58:27.307760647 +0000
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@
__snd_cache = dict()
__snd_disabled = False
-if not pygame.mixer or not pygame.mixer.get_init():
- __snd_disabled = True
-
DATA_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(
os.path.dirname(sys.argv[ 0 ]), "data"))
@@ -91,6 +88,8 @@
if ( __snd_disabled ):
return None
+ elif not pygame.mixer or not pygame.mixer.get_init():
+ __snd_disabled = True
if ( __snd_cache.has_key(name) ):
return __snd_cache[ name ]
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