OpenAL Soft doesn't work with PulseAudio (Ubuntu's default sound system)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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openal-soft (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
OpenAL Soft (the default OpenAL implementation) causes troubles in combination with PulseAudio that is used by default on the Ubuntu desktop. These troubles can be very different going from just no sound to crashes and freezes of apps that use OpenAL (mostly games).
The root cause for this seems to be that OpenAL Soft doesn't use it's new pulse output on systems with pulse running ( http://
I did this new report to synergize all the efforts of the various reports about this issue, so there is already plenty of information on the different troubles and on suggested solutions in the duplicates. That's why we should try to stay focused here.
Related branches
- Luke Yelavich: Pending requested
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
description: | updated |
this is very similar to Bug #203158 which describes the problems SDL has with it's ALSA output when Pulse is running.