FS#71940 - [sauerbraten] sound init failed/no sound

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Lasse (goldos24) - Saturday, 28 August 2021, 11:02 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 23:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

When I start Sauerbraten, it says "sound init failed: Audio target '' not available" and I therefore do not have any sound in Sauerbraten. I don't think the bug has been fixed upstream yet, so I decided to post a bug report.

Additional info:

package versions:
- alsa-card-profiles 1:0.3.34-1
- alsa-lib 1.2.5.1-3
- alsa-plugins 1:1.2.5-2
- pulseaudio 15.0-1
- sdl2_mixer 2.0.4-6

config: default

Steps to reproduce:

Start Sauerbraten with the newest versions of all packages
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 23:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Lasse (goldos24) - Monday, 30 August 2021, 19:42 GMT
As it turns out, the problem was SDL2, since it worked after a downgrade to version 2.0.14-1
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Saturday, 04 September 2021, 20:44 GMT
That's odd. We're really not doing any fancy patching in our sdl2 package. Can you try to rebuild sauerbraten against the most recent version of the sdl2 package and see whether the issue remains? This might be a bug in sdl2 or sauerbraten but doesn't seem to be a packaging bug.
Comment by Lasse (goldos24) - Sunday, 05 September 2021, 21:23 GMT
I rebuilt sauerbraten and it didn't fix anything, so I also suspect it might be a bug in sauerbraten or sdl2
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Thursday, 30 September 2021, 00:20 GMT
Frankly sauerbraten is really old and I might just drop it. I don't think it has many users at all.
Comment by elliewhatever (elliewhatever) - Monday, 11 October 2021, 14:01 GMT
Adding 'export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulseaudio' as the first line of /usr/bin/sauerbraten-client has resolved this issue for me but unsure if this could affect other setups.
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 00:15 GMT
Dunno, that would work for me. Laurent, do you think this would be a reasonable fix?
Comment by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 05:54 GMT
There is a 2020_12_29 version, with a sound fix (https://sourceforge.net/p/sauerbraten/code/6517/)

pushed just now in community repo, please test
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 23:14 GMT
Tested, works.

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