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Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer |
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Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:41:25 +0200 |
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Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> FWIW I just tried ExtremeTuxRacer and it works out of the box for me (on
>> GuixSD).
>>
>> I do use PulseAudio though. To allow ETR’s sound output to mix with
>> other things that may be playing sound already, I have this in my
>> ~/.asoundrc:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> pcm.!default {
>> type pulse
>> }
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Should we add it to the account skeletons?
>
> I don’t think that’s a good idea. This means that the ALSA library will
> always try to output to the “pulse” backend, which may not exist. For
> example, I do not use PulseAudio, so I do not have the “pulse” backend,
> so this ~/.asoundrc setting would not work in my case. (I don’t know if
> it would do harm, to be fair.)
OK, makes sense (I was expecting some push back, just wanted to make
sure. ;-))
Ludo’.
- No sound in games using sdl-mixer, Alex Kost, 2015/10/08
- Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer, 宋文武, 2015/10/08
- Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer, Alex Kost, 2015/10/08
- Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer, 宋文武, 2015/10/08
- Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer, Alex Kost, 2015/10/08
- Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer, Alex Kost, 2015/10/08
- Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/10/08
- Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer, Alex Kost, 2015/10/08
- Re: No sound in games using sdl-mixer,
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