{"author_name":"\uff42\uff52\uff4f.\uff4b\uff45\uff4e.\uff4c\uff49\uff4e\uff4b","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2011 9:01 pm","epoch":1304042460,"text":"disable pulseaudio autospawning. it&#8217;s what worked for me in Maverick","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2011 9:02 pm","epoch":1304042520,"text":"I will try that, thanks.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2011 9:15 pm","epoch":1304043300,"text":"i suppose that&#8217;s possible, but if you&#8217;re using allegro on any distro and it has a problem with vanilla ubuntu, you&#8217;re going to have the problem regardless. Also I find that my allegro stuff works fine on my ubuntu netbook, it&#8217;s just the mixer on my desktop that dies a quiet death with pulseaudio.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2011 9:24 pm","epoch":1304043840,"text":"Are you using the package from the repository, or did you build from sources?  I&#8217;m building from source, with enable-static=yes, enable-alsa=yes and enable-oss=no, and all I get from exstream is &#8216;Unable to find a sound driver&#8217;.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"GreaseMonkey","time":"April 28, 2011 10:23 pm","epoch":1304047380,"text":"Are you doing this with 16-bit output? Try restricting it to 8-bit output in allegro.cfg.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2011 11:27 pm","epoch":1304051220,"text":"Huh? I&#8217;m having none of these issues. Is it possible this is all OpenAL stuff?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 29, 2011 5:45 pm","epoch":1304117100,"text":"Thanks to everyone who tried to help.  Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have time to debug this further before contest time, so I&#8217;ll be competing from Win7 (I know this is lame, but I really don&#8217;t have a choice in the matter).","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1304042280,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67099","p_author":"\uff42\uff52\uff4f.\uff4b\uff45\uff4e.\uff4c\uff49\uff4e\uff4b","p_authorkey":"1411","p_urlkey":"102900","p_title":"\u2026.and we\u2019ve already hit our first snag.","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304042280","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"7","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1411","us_name":"\uff42\uff52\uff4f.\uff4b\uff45\uff4e.\uff4c\uff49\uff4e\uff4b","us_username":"studio_pamela","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"<p>Surprise, surprise, it looks like audio output in Allegro 4.x, along with UT, Wolfenstein ET and probably a bunch of other stuff is completely hosed on recent Ubuntu versions (thanks, Canonical, for wrecking backwards compatibility so we could hear your stupid bongos everywhere and thanks, PulseAudio for gratuitously breaking ALSA compatibility).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried a few things to fix it, but it&#8217;s too close to contest time to be doing IT stuff.<\/p>\n <p>Anyone out there have any suggestions for alternate distros that<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>have NVidia ION drivers either in their repositories or don&#8217;t die horribly with the ones from NVidia&#8217;s website?<\/li>\n <li>don&#8217;t use PulseAudio (do NOT want), or have some kind of OSS emulation layer?<\/li>\n <li>are likely to work with NForce ethernet?<\/li>\n <li>are likely to work with RealTek 8192SE wifi?<\/li>\n <\/ul>","time":"April 28th, 2011 8:58 pm","title":"\u2026.and we\u2019ve already hit our first snag."}