Hello Dan!
Thank you for your detailed answer. It is an unfortunate situation, but I
do agree, it's not Ubuntu's "fault" per-se, it is certainly
understandable/acceptable.
Nonetheless, this is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and I will, perhaps, not upgrade to
Maverick. Perhaps I will wait for the next LTS release. Could the
new/fixed release of OpenAL be back-ported to Lucid? I do not want to
stick two years with broken mplayer/wine audio, nor do I want to make my
own horrible "home-patches" to the Ubuntu installation - I mean I wouldn't
like to compile my own openal and/or mplayer packages.
That is the only thing I ask: lucid-backport ... or an Ubuntu PPA from
where me and many other users can get it. If this is possible, please let
me know, so I can test it.
Thank you again Daniel.
Best regards,
Mihai
Le Mon, 10 May 2010 23:20:07 +0300, Daniel Chen <[email protected]> a
écrit:
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Mihai Sucan <[email protected]>
wrote:
Tested with a Guest session (temporarily created user account, always
fresh/clean). The same happens. I simply start mplayer and pulseaudio
stops
outputting any sound.
According to
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2010-May/079934.html
this symptom is caused by the outdated version of openal-soft shipped
in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The remarks in that thread are unfortunately
ignorant of the fact that the tag date for 1.12.854 was Tue, 30 Mar
2010 05:05:21 +0000 (22:05 -0700), which was much too close to Lucid's
release date. Also importantly, unless there is a significantly
compelling reason, the Lucid development cycle synced directly
(without any Ubuntu changes) from Debian testing. Please note that of
this writing, the version of openal-soft in Debian testing *and*
unstable remains the precise version that shipped in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
$ apt-cache madison openal-soft
openal-soft | 1:1.11.753-1 | http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
lucid/universe Sources
$ rmadison -uqa openal-soft
openal-soft | 1:1.4.272-2 | stable | source
openal-soft | 1:1.9.563-1 | unstable | source
openal-soft | 1:1.11.753-1 | testing | source
openal-soft | 1:1.11.753-1 | unstable | source
Of course this instance is an unfortunate example of newer software
being released while the distribution was in a freeze state. In fact,
WINE as shipped in Lucid suffers from the same classes of problems. At
this point, the only hope of getting a newer openal-soft into Lucid
lies in getting it backported from Maverick, which means that someone
needs to generate and upload that source package to Maverick (which
may well mean Luke, myself, or any other dev, but we're all quite
jet-lagged ATM).
Best,
-Dan
--
Mihai Sucan
http://www.robodesign.ro
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