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Odin

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ALSA Sound?
« on: August 21, 2006, 10:04:08 pm »
Q3 is open source, can't we have ALSA sound instead of OSS, now? I'd like to be able to use XMMS with Tremulous, without the use of ESD.
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« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2006, 10:40:39 pm »
Isn't that possible already ? Using OpenAL + ALSA backend for example.
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2006, 10:43:04 pm »
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ALSA Sound?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2006, 10:46:46 pm »
SDL has alsa support, it just might not be being used.  You can force SDL to use ALSA by setting the SDL_AUDIODRIVER env variable to "alsa".

For example, start tremulous like this:

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SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa tremulous


The default audio driver is dependent on your SDL library.   It seems like ALSA should be the default, but on my distro (Slackware) the default is "dsp" (a.k.a. OSS)
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2006, 10:18:08 pm »
Tremulous uses SDL, which works with ALSA. If you are using Ubuntu (or Debian) and want all SDL programs to use ALSA and only ALSA, use synaptic, aptitude, apt-get or somesuch to install libsdl1.2debian-alsa. It should replace libsdl1.2debian-all, which also works with ALSA, but has to be told which sound system you want to use. After the install Tremulous should be incapable of using OSS anymore.
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