Any game using OpenAL has sound problems and crashes on exit
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| openal (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| Lucid |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| Maverick |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I've been using Jaunty for a long time, but only a week ago I upgraded to Karmic via the software installer.
Since then, both OpenArena and AssaultCube have had frame rate problems (particularly in open spaces. Enclosed spaces seem to be ok). The sound starts ok, and everything runs fine. But after a few minutes the sound stutters and then falls silent. After this point, any attempt to exit the game will cause the system to freeze. Its definitely the system that fails, there is no way of killing the process. I am forced to use the reset switch on my pc to do a hardware restart of the system.
From some research it seems that there may be a problem between OpenAL and Pulseaudio.
I was using version 1.8 of OpenAL, so I upgraded to version 1.10 and everything seemed okay for a day. Then the sound became distorted again and the original problem resurfaced.
There is another bug, #351732, which describes a similar problem. However #351732 is based on Jaunty.
| Paul Smith (transparentpurpletrip) wrote | #1 |
| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Please test proposed package | #2 |
| tags: | added: verification-needed |
| Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in openal (Ubuntu Maverick): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in openal (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| ilna (a-gaydenko) wrote | #4 |
| Paul Smith (transparentpurpletrip) wrote | #5 |
| Paul Smith (transparentpurpletrip) wrote | #6 |
| Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in openal (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Ah, I forgot to say I'm using Kubuntu.