[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 442535] Re: wesnoth no sound, high cpu usage, can't quit without freezing the application

[Don Atkinson]

After a generally irritating few days, I found a solution that works for me.  I left pulseaudio for a bit and I still had great sound- the problem was my laptop's spinning volume control was inoperative.  I would have to open a gizmo in my task bar to control the volume.  So, back to pulseaudio today, and all my controls are back.  But of course, Wesnoth and other sdl-type games would run the CPU to 100% usage and crash Wesnoth once again at some random time.  BUT- I found if I opened Wesnoth with the sound disabled (all 4 buttons checked OFF in Wesnoth Preferences- Sound Effects, Music, Turn Bell and User Interface Sounds), loaded the scenario I wanted to play, and THEN went back to Preferences>Sound and enabled all 4 sound buttons, my CPU usage was very low- and most importantly, stayed low, and did not crash me once all night.  Not the perfect answer, but until this SDL/Pulse Audio issue is resolved...  I'm happy!  I hope this helps some fellow Wesnoth addict out there.  :)
Game On!  (and protect your flanks)

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wesnoth no sound, high cpu usage, can't quit without freezing the application
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Status in “wesnoth” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: wesnoth

I hear no music or sound, wesnoth freezes after trying to close the game by pressing button "quit". Removing settings folder and starting the application fresh doesn't help:
rm -r .wesnoth1.6/

It also freezes after trying to untick all sound options in sound preferences (buttons sound, music, unit sound, something else...)

At all time it attempts to use 100% cpu

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct  4 23:05:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/games/wesnoth
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: wesnoth-core 1:1.6.5-1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: wesnoth
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686