OpenAL is broken

[dysmann]

I repport another bug about OpenAL because I'm fed up of this

I'm using Karmic freshly installed and updated, and when I try to play games using OpenAL the sound is crakling, and I don't ear game's sound. I tried OpenArena, Flightgear, Supertux (not stable)

This may work : using http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libopenal1 in case of Ubuntu's one

[dysmann (dysmann)]

I found unstable package can cause sound break while playing.

I'm testing debian testing version instead and I will report whether it's working well or not.
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libopenal1

[dysmann (dysmann)]

it seems that the package from debian testing is working very well

[dysmann (dysmann)]

My sound card is :
Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)

and I'm using PulseAudio, if it can help.

[dysmann (dysmann)]

The package from debian squeeze finally seems to break while playing games sometimes.
This issue is not present at all in debian testing which is using ALSA and not PulseAudio

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

I think the package is openal-soft since intrepid.
I see that lucid has imported libopenal1 (1:1.9.563-1) from debian.

[Laurent Séguin (cybersdf)]

Don't work for me.

$ lspci | grep audio
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
$ aptitude show libopenal1
[...]
Version : 1:1.9.563-1
$ aptitude show pulseaudio
[...]
Version : 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4

Games tested : Warzone 2100 - UT 2004

[dysmann (dysmann)]

This issue seems to be caused by libopenal + pulseaudio. No issue on Debian which I'm using now.
No need of pulseaudio, alsa works well, but on the last Ubuntu, we cannot even remove pulseaudio to test.

[Michele Mattioni (mattions)]

Same problem here.

Doesn't work when I'm trying to play glest.
It worked before on hardy (jaunty was already broken)

[dysmann (dysmann)]

this bug is very important and is still not corrected. I'm starting to hesitate migrating people on Ubuntu. Hey ! Ubuntu 9.10 is now a stable release and playing is hard while it used to work ! I already had problems on Jaunty too.
Fortunatly, Ubuntu Hardy LTS was good, but no ext4 on it.