Public bug reported:
Ubuntu 10.04
Many applications and games have sound issues as default, such as no
sound, jerky sound or freezes because of sound issues. Here are some
applications that refused to work on my machine:
Assault Cube
NeverBall
NeverPutt
Supertux 1 and 2
Vdrift (can also crash because of this issue)
FlightGear
SuperTuxKart
and many more.
I only found out the reason when running FlightGear it came up and said
No OSS driver installed. But I don't use OSS!
So I searched around the net and found that if you create a file in the
home directory of the user eg. (/home/andy/) called '.alsoftrc' and then
put inside 'drivers = alsa' all the issues become fixed! I now don't
have any sound issues on machine at all whereas many applications used
to not work.
Surely this can be easily fixed for a release and save many users loads
of time. Also I guess that if you change the value you can choose which
driver to use.
I have included the file as an attachment.
Andy
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Many applications and games have sound issues as default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/618286
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