Pulseaudio still buggy in Karmic

[Andrew Kane]

I have had trouble so far only with applications that don't properly
support PulseAudio, namely gizmo5 and warzone2100 (incompatibility
with OpenAl, apparently).

Here is the relevant section from the log I've been keeping on these problems:
<i>
Problem with sound in Warzone2100: Audio crackled and faded out on
application launch. No audio.
	Resolved by following Ubuntu PulseAudio guide (issue: OpenAL not
PulseAudio compatible)
		http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578
	As of 11/30/2009 this problem recurs.
		Gizmo5 - related, see below
	Tried altering /etc/openal/alsoft.conf per pulseaudio guide cited in
gizmo5 section below, adding "devices = pulse" to main section.
	Undoing above edit fixed the problem, Warzone opens, makes sound and
exits gracefully.

Problem with sound in Gizmo5 client (Medibuntu): No incoming audio.
Output heard on other phone, "hang-up" sound heard, no other audio.
	Resolved (sort of) by using alsa-oss according to this guide:
		http://forum.gizmo5.com/viewtopic.php?t=9860
		This made gizmo work (sort of- launcher still fails) but broke sound
in Warzone2100
	Tried using padsp gizmo per this guide:
		http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
		Gizmo started up and appeared to work (startup sound (crackly) but
did not attempt to make any calls)
			Warzone now refusing to start (blank window, does not exit
gracefully- XKill'd it)
</i>

Sorry if it isn't very coherent.

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Doug Robinson <dkrr at telus.net> wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 12/19/2009 06:40 AM, David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) wrote:
>>
>>> I changed my setting in pavucontrol, now it won't open, and my volume
>>> control has disappeared. How do I manually set pavucontrol?
>>>
>>> I tried this in terminal, but it fails to open.
>>>
>>> pulseaudio & pavucontrol
>>>
>>
>> Try pavdevcontrol instead:
>> $ sudo apt-get install pavdevcontrol
>> You'll then find it in Applications|Sound...|PulseAudio Device Chooser.
>> Click on the applett that appears on your top panel & you'll find all of
>> the options, including volume.
>>
>>
> I had a great deal of trouble with sound. Mostly fixed now with the help
> of <http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup>. Still I did not try
> to fix everything. I was fed up with the whole *^&$%^& thing by then.
>
> Good luck!
> dkr
>
>
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