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GordonGR

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From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Registered: 2011-11-07

Posts: 276

[SOLVED] No sound in 32-bit OpenAL

Hallo everyone.

Firstly, I am new to Arch, but I've been using Linux for more than ten years. I must say, I love Arch! It's like a traditional-style distribution (no hidden options, no "you don't know what's best for you, I do!", no stupid flavours etc).

Now, to the point: I don't have sound with any 32-bit SecondLife/OpenSims viewers, but I have with native 64-bit ones (namely, Imprudence, from AUR). When it comes to sound, Imprudence proudly states:

Audio Driver Version: OpenAL, version 1.1 ALSOFT 1.12.854 / OpenAL Community / OpenAL Soft: 
PulseAudio Software

but 32 bit viewers (namely, Phoenix from AUR and Cool VL Viewer from its own homepage) state:

Audio Driver Version: (none)

So I figure it's something to do with lib32-openal, which I've installed (and re-installed to no avail) from the repos.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Last edited by GordonGR (2011-11-10 21:50:58)

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GordonGR

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From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Registered: 2011-11-07

Posts: 276

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in 32-bit OpenAL

UPDATE: I tried installing lib32-libpulse and lib32-alsa-lib as suggested here, but alas, nothing changed.

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GordonGR

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From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Registered: 2011-11-07

Posts: 276

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in 32-bit OpenAL

UPDATE: I saw Hippo Opensim Viewer complained:

2011-11-10T19:35:21Z WARNING: init: ESD audio output FAILED to initialize: Error initializing output device.                                                                                                          
2011-11-10T19:35:21Z WARNING: init: OSS audio output FAILED to initialize: Error initializing output device.                                                                                                          
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
2011-11-10T19:35:21Z WARNING: init: ALSA audio output FAILED to initialize: Error initializing output device.                                                                                                         
2011-11-10T19:35:21Z WARNING: init: Overall audio init failure.                                            
2011-11-10T19:35:21Z WARNING: idle_startup: Unable to initialize audio engine 

Now, my "/usr/lib32/alsa-lib" directory only contains an "smixer" directory, which seems irrelevant. What do I need to install? The only relevant package I found was that, but it seems it wants to install the whole OSS, which I'm sure would create other issues (I'm using alsa).

Any ideas?

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Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz, x86_64. AURs.

“No one without the knowledge of geometry may enter.“ Plato.

GordonGR

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From: Thessaloniki, Greece

Registered: 2011-11-07

Posts: 276

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in 32-bit OpenAL

Apparently I was stupid enough to forget installing lib32-alsa-utils… *sighs* Sorry for the trouble, guys, I now have sound though it seems to lag a bit... but I'll look into that. Anyway, issue solved.

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Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz, x86_64. AURs.

“No one without the knowledge of geometry may enter.“ Plato.