Thanks to all for your answers and the hint about checking the OpenAL configuration - the problem was caused by a stale .alsoftrc config file that had persisted in my home directory across the OS upgrade. Sorry for the noise...
Maxime On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:13:31 +0200 (CEST) Anders Gidenstam <anders-...@gidenstam.org> wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012, Maxime Guillaud wrote: > > > What I find suspicious is that no sound devices at all are detected, > > although I > > believe I have ALSA and Pulseaudio properly installed (including -dev > > packages). > > > > Any clues about what is going on and how to further debug this ? > > You OpenAL intsallation might not be properly configured, check your > /etc/openal/alsoft.conf > and/or > ~/.alsoftrc > files. (If you have OpenAL-soft. The location in /etc may vary with > the distribution.) > > On my system I have > anders@sleipner:~$ cat ~/.alsoftrc > format = AL_FORMAT_STEREO16 > cf_level = 2 > drivers = alsa > [alsa] # ALSA backend stuff > device = plug:dmix > capture = plug:dsnoop > [wave] > file = /dev/null > > to make OpenAL use ALSA. > > Cheers, > > Anders -- sent from my armchair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel