Hi David I haven't edited the file at all. All i have done is install Ubuntu and install some apps. The sound wasn't working so I read some forums and found that this fixed the problem. As I said some had no sound, some were jerky and some were fine.
So why not use this file to fix the same problems for others? Andy P.S I have attached my /etc/openal/alsoft.conf file. ** Attachment added: "alsoft.conf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openal-soft/+bug/618286/+attachment/1498628/+files/alsoft.conf -- Many applications and games have sound issues as default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/618286 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debian/Ubuntu Games Team, which is subscribed to openal-soft in ubuntu. Status in “openal-soft” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Ubuntu 10.04 Many applications and games have sound issues as default, such as no sound, jerky sound or freezes because of sound issues. Here are some applications that refused to work on my machine: Assault Cube NeverBall NeverPutt Supertux 1 and 2 Vdrift (can also crash because of this issue) FlightGear SuperTuxKart and many more. I only found out the reason when running FlightGear it came up and said No OSS driver installed. But I don't use OSS! So I searched around the net and found that if you create a file in the home directory of the user eg. (/home/andy/) called '.alsoftrc' and then put inside 'drivers = alsa' all the issues become fixed! I now don't have any sound issues on machine at all whereas many applications used to not work. Surely this can be easily fixed for a release and save many users loads of time. Also I guess that if you change the value you can choose which driver to use. I have included the file as an attachment. Andy --- AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: andy 1519 F.... pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xcfff0000 irq 21' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889A' Components : 'HDA:10ec0885,10ece601,00100101' Controls : 40 Simple ctrls : 22 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Tags: lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686 UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers dmi.bios.date: 03/02/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG dmi.board.name: XFX Nforce 680i LT dmi.board.vendor: XFX dmi.board.version: 1 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: XFX dmi.chassis.version: XFX Nforce 680i LT dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd03/02/2007:svnXFX:pnXFXNforce680iLT:pvr1:rvnXFX:rnXFXNforce680iLT:rvr1:cvnXFX:ct3:cvrXFXNforce680iLT: dmi.product.name: XFX Nforce 680i LT dmi.product.version: 1 dmi.sys.vendor: XFX _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-ubuntu mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-ubuntu
