On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Philip Le Riche <phi...@blueskylark.org> wrote: > Thank you for that, but still no joy whatsoever. I also tried uninstalling > python-pygame and installing python3-pygame instead, but that gave the same > error and furthermore, wouldn't recognise the existence of my wav file. I > also tried installing pulseaudio, python-alsaaudio and python-pyalsa, > thinking that it looked like pygame was failing to connect to the underlying > sound system, but nothing made any difference. > > Are people successfully using pygame on the Raspberry Pi, or is it just > broken? >
I think you'll have more luck asking in the RPi forums. Looking at the last post in this thread it seems to be a problem with pulseaudio: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=45548&p=360197 Are you able to run other sound applications?