[Segura]

I've been having problems with UrbanTerror under Ubuntu last days, problems about sound. The sound stops and the terminal says: "Dropping Sound"

The problem is related with PulseAudio. I found the solution in these blog

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First you have to install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio and remove libsdl1.2debian-alsa
Later edit /etc/default/pulseaudio and writes PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1
Finally add your user to pulse-access group: sudo adduser ${USER} pulse-access

Enjoy your karmik & Urban

This post has been edited by Segura: 03 November 2009 - 12:32 AM

[davygrvy (old)]

I'm having something similar, but different. Things worked before I updated to 9.10 from 9.04. Now if I start UrT and sound doesn't happened at the splash screen, I can't exit. I have to Ctrl+Alt+F1, login, run top, and kill UrT, then Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get back to X then fix the screen size.

I haven't solved it yet. The sound problem happens with shockwave video apps sometimes too.

[davygrvy (old)]

Oh, righteous! ALSA was gone in place of pulse. Your trick worked. Rebooting now to clear the mess as sound in UrT is blotchy, but working and I can exit.

edit: ahh! My sound profile was set to 5.1 surround not stereo, that fixed it. Thanks Segura

This post has been edited by davygrvy: 01 November 2009 - 11:25 PM

[danny6167 (old)]

You might not need to edit pulse configuration.
Fixed several Ubuntu Jaunty and Karmic computer by just installing the "libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio" package.

Relevant LP entries.
https://bugs.launchp...dio/+bug/372843
https://bugs.launchp...ars/+bug/454879

[Simian (old)]

Pulseaudio never worked right for me in Ubuntu. I always removed it right after installation. After switching to Fedora (for that and other reasons), it works just fine out of the box.

[luckystrikes (old)]

worked perfect, thanks segura