No sound at all [Fedora 8]

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urlauber
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No sound at all [Fedora 8]

Post by urlauber »

Hi there,

if I start scummvm via console it says:

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WARNING: Could not open audio device: No available audio device!
if I start a game e.g. DOTT:

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WARNING: Sound mixer initialization failed!
The sounddriver I selected in scummvm is 'default'. If I select 'alsa' it doesn't start at all:

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Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) see README for help!
Scummvm runs perfectly in Ubuntu with the MT32-emu, but that doesn' work in Fedora either.
I'm new to Fedora, I think it uses pulseaudio as the soundserver, could this be the problem?
Standard apps like amarok, xmms... are working fine.

Some specs (feel free to aks for more).
scummvm version: 0.10.0 (from Fedora repository, August 22nd)
sound: intel centrino chipset (snd_hda_intel)
Installed everything sdl-related - didn't work...

Any hints? Thx alot!
urlauber
clem
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Post by clem »

Indeed there seems to be a problem about SDL + PulseAudio; I asked on the ScummVM irc channel, and apparently a workaround is to set SDL_AUDIODRIVER to "esd" - I haven't booted into linux since so I didn't check yet
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eriktorbjorn
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Re: No sound at all [Fedora 8]

Post by eriktorbjorn »

urlauber wrote: The sounddriver I selected in scummvm is 'default'. If I select 'alsa' it doesn't start at all:
The music driver setting in ScummVM only controls how synthesized music is played. "ALSA" means using the ALSA sequencer to play MIDI. The "default" setting probably means using (emulated) AdLib music instead.
urlauber wrote: I'm new to Fedora, I think it uses pulseaudio as the soundserver, could this be the problem?
I've never used Fedora, but maybe this bug report is what you're looking for.
urlauber
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Post by urlauber »

The workaround to set SDL_AUDIODRIVER to esd does the job for now, thx!
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