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Starsector => Bug Reports & Support => Topic started by: proff_ch405 on April 03, 2012, 07:45:20 PM

Title: 64bit Arch Linux - no sound in game [SOLVED]
Post by: proff_ch405 on April 03, 2012, 07:45:20 PM

First of all, hello all!  I just found this game the other day and had some fun playing it on my windows 7 laptop.  Now I am trying to get it going on my 64-bit Arch Linux setup and things seem to be working except for sound.

I have alsa configured and sound works for movies, music, and desktop sound effects....but not in Starfarer.  Is there a setting buried someplace that could be causing the game to try to use a different sound output?  My monitor is connected via HDMI, and my sound is setup to come out the analog port and feed some external speakers.

Any assistance would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Title: Re: 64bit Arch Linux - no sound in game
Post by: Zilerrezko on April 03, 2012, 09:16:55 PM

what's like on a linux?

Title: Re: 64bit Arch Linux - no sound in game
Post by: Ivaylo on April 04, 2012, 04:19:20 AM

Hi there!

Starfarer uses OpenAL as its sound system. In the past we have run across distros that were not properly bundled with the 64 bit binaries for OpenAL.

This is what worked for me to fix the issue in the past:

Open Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager)
Then in the search box type "libopenal" without the quotes.

Then click on the libopenal1 checkbox there, it ought to install the package in your OS. Our bundled .so file ought to have worked, but if this fixes sound we know where the issue is.


Hopefully that helps.

Title: Re: 64bit Arch Linux - no sound in game [SOLVED]
Post by: proff_ch405 on April 04, 2012, 04:45:28 AM

Thanks for the heads up on OpenAL!

What I had to do on Arch LInux was the following:

pacman -S lib32-alsa-lib lib32-openal

Title: Re: 64bit Arch Linux - no sound in game [SOLVED]
Post by: Ivaylo on April 04, 2012, 07:03:43 AM

So did that work? You have sound now?

If so, I will be quite content  ;D


EDIT: Derp, didn't see edited post title. I AM QUITE CONTENT.