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FS#33986 - [steam] Missing pulseaudio dependency

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Max Pray (synthead) - Saturday, 23 February 2013, 23:13 GMT
Last edited by Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) - Sunday, 03 March 2013, 14:33 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Multilib
Status Closed
Assigned To Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
TF2 has no sound unless pulseaudio is installed.

Additional info:
When launching Steam from a console, starting TF2 (w/o pulseaudio installed) echoes this to stdout:
SDLAUDIO: SDL_OpenAudioDevice() failed: Could not setup connection to PulseAudio
Generating new string page texture 1236: 16x256, total string texture memory is 5.05 MB
AL lib: pulseaudio.c:612: Context did not connect: Access denied

Steps to reproduce:
1. Remove pulseaudio package from system.
2. Start Steam from console.
3. Observe error in console and notice that the game has no sound.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)
Sunday, 03 March 2013, 14:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) - Sunday, 24 February 2013, 00:32 GMT
please try the version in testing which has a patch to check if pulseaudio is running

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