needs to fix pulse audio driver / snowglobe shut down

Snowglobe 1.1.3 (2906) Oct 16 2009 11:37:51 (Snowglobe Release)
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Asriazh Frye added a comment - 11/Nov/09 07:18 AM
That's most likely OpenAl, freezing Pulseaudio. Until i compiled Pulseaudio from the GIT source, i had the same issue of OpenAL killing and creating new instances of stream until the sound finally froze which also caused Snowglobe to hang at shutdown. I use Pukseaudio 0.9.19.237-g721e-dirty right now without issues.

-Asriazh

Halaliel Zenith added a comment - 11/Nov/09 04:56 PM - edited
OK, I'm not sure about what you are telling me above, I looked @ installed software & looked up pulse audio & 6 pakages not installed.

They have simple Gnome audio control by default & not sure about what pulse audio is. Since i don't see pulse audio on this PC not a issue here.

Also looked for openAL to it is not installed on my pc, again not the issue.
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Halaliel Zenith added a comment - 11/Nov/09 04:56 PM - edited OK, I'm not sure about what you are telling me above, I looked @ installed software & looked up pulse audio & 6 pakages not installed. They have simple Gnome audio control by default & not sure about what pulse audio is. Since i don't see pulse audio on this PC not a issue here. Also looked for openAL to it is not installed on my pc, again not the issue.

Asriazh Frye added a comment - 11/Nov/09 08:11 PM
You might not have Pulseaudio installed (you can check by opening a commandprompt window and entering "pulseaudio --version" without quotes) , but you sure use OpenAL, cause SL comes with a copy of it. Just look at your own environment output you pasted here ^^;

-Asriazh
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Asriazh Frye added a comment - 11/Nov/09 08:11 PM You might not have Pulseaudio installed (you can check by opening a commandprompt window and entering "pulseaudio --version" without quotes) , but you sure use OpenAL, cause SL comes with a copy of it. Just look at your own environment output you pasted here ^^; -Asriazh

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Halaliel Zenith added a comment - 12/Nov/09 04:59 PM - edited
pulseaudio 0.9.19 is shown installed although not shown in synaptic.
Well questions are what is pulse audio ? do I need it ? will solve or cause trouble ? keep it Installed ? or what is it I should install extra +/- 6 different packages ?

Yes I see the info. pasted I do have openAL, I found something in synaptic same name it seems to be for developers, so way over my head to know. It does not show installed there BTW.

Asriazh Frye added a comment - 13/Nov/09 10:28 AM - edited
You could compile Pulseaudio from source and the hang at closing SL would go away. But since you're new to Linux, the better and easier option would be to go to your SL folder and open the file "snowglobe" there with a texteditor like gedit for example. there change

## - Avoids using any OpenAL audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_OPENAL_DRIVER=x
## - Avoids using any FMOD audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_DRIVER=x

to

## - Avoids using any OpenAL audio driver.
export LL_BAD_OPENAL_DRIVER=x
## - Avoids using any FMOD audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_DRIVER=x

and save. This will force Snowglobe to use FMOD instead of OpenAL. The sound stuttering and hanging at shutdown will go away, but as a trade off you'll have a slight audio delay. Good luck _
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Asriazh Frye added a comment - 13/Nov/09 10:28 AM - edited You could compile Pulseaudio from source and the hang at closing SL would go away. But since you're new to Linux, the better and easier option would be to go to your SL folder and open the file "snowglobe" there with a texteditor like gedit for example. there change

## - Avoids using any OpenAL audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_OPENAL_DRIVER=x
## - Avoids using any FMOD audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_DRIVER=x

to

## - Avoids using any OpenAL audio driver.
export LL_BAD_OPENAL_DRIVER=x
## - Avoids using any FMOD audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_FMOD_DRIVER=x

and save. This will force Snowglobe to use FMOD instead of OpenAL. The sound stuttering and hanging at shutdown will go away, but as a trade off you'll have a slight audio delay. Good luck _

Can anyone figure this out ??