[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 618286] [NEW] Many applications and games have sound issues as default

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Ubuntu 10.04

Many applications and games have sound issues as default, such as no
sound, jerky sound or freezes because of sound issues. Here are some
applications that refused to work on my machine:

Assault Cube
NeverBall
NeverPutt
Supertux 1 and 2
Vdrift (can also crash because of this issue)
FlightGear
SuperTuxKart
and many more.

I only found out the reason when running FlightGear it came up and said
No OSS driver installed. But I don't use OSS!

So I searched around the net and found that if you create a file in the
home directory of the user eg. (/home/andy/) called '.alsoftrc' and then
put inside 'drivers = alsa' all the issues become fixed! I now don't
have any sound issues on machine at all whereas many applications used
to not work.

Surely this can be easily fixed for a release and save many users loads
of time. Also I guess that if you change the value you can choose which
driver to use.

I have included the file as an attachment.

Andy
--- 
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0:  andy       1519 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xcfff0000 irq 21'
   Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC889A'
   Components	: 'HDA:10ec0885,10ece601,00100101'
   Controls      : 40
   Simple ctrls  : 22
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers
dmi.bios.date: 03/02/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: XFX Nforce 680i LT
dmi.board.vendor: XFX
dmi.board.version: 1
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: XFX
dmi.chassis.version: XFX Nforce 680i LT
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd03/02/2007:svnXFX:pnXFXNforce680iLT:pvr1:rvnXFX:rnXFXNforce680iLT:rvr1:cvnXFX:ct3:cvrXFXNforce680iLT:
dmi.product.name: XFX Nforce 680i LT
dmi.product.version: 1
dmi.sys.vendor: XFX

** Affects: openal-soft (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete


** Tags: apport-collected
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Many applications and games have sound issues as default
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