Re: No sound with SDL apps
On Thursday 15 April 2004 07:46, Keir Lawson wrote:
> Im currently using debian unstable with my via 8233 onboard sound and
> OSS, sound works for most apps (XMMS etc), however i cannot seem to work
> out how to get it to work with SDL based games (ie frozen-bubble,
> tuxracer etc). frozen-bubble gives me the following error (even as
> root):
>
> Warning: can't initialize sound (reason: No available audio device).
>
> Keir Lawson
You don't say what desktop environment you're running, but if it has a sound
daemon (such as aRTS in KDE), it's very possible the sound daemon has
control of the audio device, and SDL can't use it. aRTS has a setting that
releases the sound card device after a certain time period, usually one
minute. Try launching frozen-bubble after aRTS releases the sound card.
If you're not using a sound daemon, what output plugin is XMMS using, and
are you running XMMS at the same time?
Justin Guerin
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