Openal and .alsoftrc needed to run AlienArena

[MBantz]

Hey,

packaging AlienArena and this crashes hard when entering the game. Then Beerhunter came to the rescue and sent me a link about creating an .alsoftrc file

I have pulseaudio activated and created a ~/.alsoftrc file with this content:
[general]
drivers=port

other possibilities for the drivers entry are:
drivers=alsa

and

drivers=oss

and the game runs now (at least the two three minutes I'm alive in the game :-)

Soundsetup is kind of black magic to me - does anyone know if this setting can be set globally on the system - and what package should generate this global file? I'll then take a look at packaging it,

cheers,
MBantz

[slax]

I fixed it mate and tested of course
Seems the global conf file is in /etc/openal

/etc/openal/alsoft.conf changed to
drivers = oss,alsa,pulse

that line needs to be uncommented and changed to the line i wrote...

it wont work if port audio is in the line.

I believe the openal package needs to be rebuilt so we can change the config file.

[MBantz]

Wow, perfect Slax!

I'll take a look at the openal package (after we get the pixbuf thingey out of the way ;-)

cheers,
MBantz

[dbatjr]

Thanks,

This is the second time in just as many days that the PClinuxOS forum has provided me with the solution to a vexing problem!

Alien-Arena was crashing on me whenever I tried to enter a game. 

Changing the config file as suggested by slax fixed it.

Thanks again!

Tom

[tren]

/etc/openal/alsoft.conf changed to
drivers = oss,alsa,pulse

So, what did this fix?

I tried it, rebooted, and I still have the same issue: only one app at a time can access pulseaudio. Pulse or ALSA or whatever won't allow more than one app to use the sound system.

[slax]

That is not the same problem.... Using pulse you should be able to run multiple sound sources on alsa :/
Go to control center and under audio enable pulse.

[tren]

That is not the same problem.... Using pulse you should be able to run multiple sound sources on alsa :/
Go to control center and under audio enable pulse.

Pulse is enabled. Still not working. Sound is good when it works -- only it's one app at a time.