No Sound in Freeciv 2.1.3 SDL client

[Jens Lehmann]

Binary package hint: freeciv

When using freeciv in hardy (usually I use gutsy with a few exceptions), sound does not work. When starting freeciv the "sound options" button is grayed out indicating that sound is not available. I installed the following packages:

freeciv-server 2.1.3-1
freeciv-client-sdl 2.1.3-1
freeciv-sound-standard 2.1.3-1
freeciv-data 2.1.3-1

So, the standard sound package is correctly installed, but I get neither sound nor any relevant message on the command line pointing me to anything which could be wrong. I also tried to set default_sound_plugin_name="sdl" in .civclientrc, but this didn't change anything.

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Confirming with the sdl client.

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Pulse audio related?

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Does sound work on the sdl client in gutsy?

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Running the sdlclient with

civclient -d 3 -P sdl -S stdsounds

I still get the sound option menu greyed out.

I get errors referring to the lack of sounds for events such as:

No sound file for tag e_game_quit (file -)
3: Neither of tags e_game_quit or (null) found

But there are no errors referring to the lack of sound in general.

[Jens Lehmann (jens-lehmann)]

After actually starting a game, I found out that sound does work when moving units. I still wonder why the sound menu is grayed out, but there does not actually seem to be a general sound system problem in my case. (Maybe only some sound events are working as your error messages indicate.)

It can still be confusing for users, because there is no music/sound when starting the SDL client and options cannot be set (don't know whether/which sound options exist).

[Jakob Gillich (jgillich)]

Same issue on Debian 6.0, seems to be no Ubuntu or Pulseaudio related issue.

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

Is there meant to be music? I haven't noticed any in the GTK client either.

[Tobias Frost (coldtobi)]

Ancient version. reopen if it still affects you.