libopenal doesn't working properly with pulse

[Major Andras]

1, Release: 9.04 beta
2, Package version: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu16
3, Sympthon: If I use an application (game) what use libopenal, the audio has a lot of uggly glitches instead of nice music and/or effects.

Steps for the bug:

1. Install a game with libopenal dependencies (supertux -> apt-get install supertux)
2. Run the game (supertux)
3. As you can hear, the audio is very ugly.

Workaround:

echo 'drivers = oss' >~/.alsoftrc

[Major Andras (majorandras)]

A better workaround is:

echo 'refresh = 2048' >~/.alsoftrc

[Lasse Kärkkäinen (tronic+mb48)]

None of the options I have tried works (on karmic alpha):

drivers=pulse: application hangs when opening device:

#0 0x00007ffff5a275a9 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x00007ffff12e4fbd in pa_threaded_mainloop_signal (m=0x2425dd0, wait_for_accept=1) at pulse/thread-mainloop.c:197
#2 0x00007ffff12c9607 in pa_context_set_state (c=0x245c320, st=PA_CONTEXT_CONNECTING) at pulse/context.c:313
#3 0x00007ffff12caef6 in pa_context_connect (c=0x245c320, server=0x255e320 "{5ec9cd22341a1ed533c4aaef48b755a6}unix:/home/tronic/.pulse/5ec9cd22341a1ed533c4aaef48b755a6-runtime/native tcp:Kaidenn:4713 tcp6:Kaidenn:4713", flags=PA_CONTEXT_NOAUTOSPAWN, api=0x0)
    at pulse/context.c:1020
#4 0x00007ffff7ae89e1 in pulse_open (device=0x235f670, device_name=<value optimized out>, format=<value optimized out>, samples=0, frequency=<value optimized out>) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/pulseaudio.c:295
#5 0x00007ffff7ad1bd3 in alcOpenDevice (deviceName=0x0) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/ALc.c:1292

drivers=alsa, [alsa]device=pulse: sound works for a while (around 10 minutes), then there is corrupted noise for less than a second and after that only silence but the application stays displayed on pavucontrol. The application hangs on exit at:

#0 0x00007ffff5a23cfd in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x00007ffff7ae023c in StopThread (thread=0x255dcf0) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/alcThread.c:120
#2 0x00007ffff7ae1a25 in alsa_close_playback (device=0x25469c0) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/alsa.c:529
#3 0x00007ffff7ad1ff6 in alcCloseDevice (pDevice=0x25469c0) at /build/buildd/openal-soft-1.8.466/Alc/ALc.c:1349

drivers=oss: no sound, application does not appear on pavucontrol.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Lasse, I can not reproduce your hang in pulse_open.
Is "Kaidenn" your local machine or are you trying to open a connection to a machine that does not respond?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+341-g62bf-0ubuntu1

---------------
pulseaudio (1:0.9.22~0.9.21+341-g62bf-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New snapshot based on stable-queue git branch (testing requested
    specifically by upstream)
    - LP: #164745, #173212, #201391, #204536, #207796, #210016, #221038,
    - LP: #226342, #230408, #236423, #237443, #250059, #269585, #274304,
    - LP: #274577, #275474, #277532, #277566, #277932, #278025, #280534,
    - LP: #283049, #286816, #287036, #292732, #298011, #298301, #300290,
    - LP: #302038, #311497, #311853, #324062, #339448, #344057, #348979,
    - LP: #350829, #356206, #367379, #367544, #369822, #371897, #374846,
    - LP: #375570, #381801, #399515, #402950, #403786, #408169, #409322,
    - LP: #409723, #410326, #410446, #417695, #417976, #419271, #421072,
    - LP: #422774, #423979, #424655, #425028, #427016, #431072, #432660,
    - LP: #437640, #437996, #442191, #443306, #443389, #446719, #449762,
    - LP: #455417, #461532, #464652, #483191, #497537, #503780
  * debian/patches/:
    + add: 0099-change-configure-git-version-tag.patch: Match released
           upstream 0.9.21 for shlibs and LIBPULSE_VERSION_INFO
    - drop: 0004-set-tsched0.patch (no longer relevant)
            0050-revert-pacmd-poll-argv.patch (no longer relevant)
            0056-dont-bail-on-sound-class-modem.patch (merged)
            0056-ignore-sound-class-modem.patch (merged)
            0058-Backport-4c793.patch (merged)
            0059-Backport-978d3.patch (merged)
            0060-fix-implicit-func-decl-cpu-arm.patch (merged)
            0061-Backport-c5fdb.patch (merged)
            0070-dont-bail-on-sound-class-modem-devs.patch (merged)
    + refresh: 0001-change-resample-and-buffering.patch
               0090-disable-flat-volumes.patch
               0091-dont-load-cork-music-on-phone.patch
               0057-load-module-x11-bell.patch
 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:33:05 -0500