After a generally irritating few days, I found a solution that works for me. I left pulseaudio for a bit and I still had great sound- the problem was my laptop's spinning volume control was inoperative. I would have to open a gizmo in my task bar to control the volume. So, back to pulseaudio today, and all my controls are back. But of course, Wesnoth and other sdl-type games would run the CPU to 100% usage and crash Wesnoth once again at some random time. BUT- I found if I opened Wesnoth with the sound disabled (all 4 buttons checked OFF in Wesnoth Preferences- Sound Effects, Music, Turn Bell and User Interface Sounds), loaded the scenario I wanted to play, and THEN went back to Preferences>Sound and enabled all 4 sound buttons, my CPU usage was very low- and most importantly, stayed low, and did not crash me once all night. Not the perfect answer, but until this SDL/Pulse Audio issue is resolved... I'm happy! I hope this helps some fellow Wesnoth addict out there. :) Game On! (and protect your flanks)
-- wesnoth no sound, high cpu usage, can't quit without freezing the application https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442535 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debian/Ubuntu Games Team, which is subscribed to wesnoth in ubuntu. Status in “wesnoth” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: wesnoth I hear no music or sound, wesnoth freezes after trying to close the game by pressing button "quit". Removing settings folder and starting the application fresh doesn't help: rm -r .wesnoth1.6/ It also freezes after trying to untick all sound options in sound preferences (buttons sound, music, unit sound, something else...) At all time it attempts to use 100% cpu ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Oct 4 23:05:23 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/games/wesnoth NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: wesnoth-core 1:1.6.5-1 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic SourcePackage: wesnoth Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686 _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-ubuntu mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-ubuntu
