Sound cuts out

[Protocol84]

I am running CruchBang 64 bit linux, I have openAL and pulseaudio installed.

I have to use pulse for my soundcard to work right, it is a USB soundcard called the M-Audio Transit.

The audio works fine when I first start the game, but after 30 second it cuts out. I have checked all of the logs that I can find and there are no errors. I have gone into the config and enabled the sound safe mode, it did not help. I have tried changing the number of channels, that just makes it cut out quicker.
I also tried changing the frequency, that just made it not work at all. I am re-downloading the game to see if this will fix it but I doubt it will.

Any information on how to debug this would be greatly appreciated!

[71175]

Ehm strange.... No problems like this on fedora, and no problems on ubuntu with removed pulse and manuallly chosen primary card O.o

[Cuchulainn]

did you also take a look to the openAl config file? Maybe it is located at /etc/openal/alsoft.conf.

the line drivers=... is probably the most interesting line in this file.

You can try drivers=pulse,alsa or maybe driver=alsa works better. For me under Fedora 17 I can use both and it works fine. I also tested it with OSSv4 (http://opensound.com/) a while ago, where I had to change it to "drivers=oss"

[Protocol84]

Ahh, I did not know there was an openal config file, I found the issue!! The transit has a limited data rate, the game was trying to send too much info to the usb soundcard. I set it to be 16 bit stereo and it has fixed the issue.

Thank you for showing me that file!

[Aid_The_Conjurer]

Try removing "pulseaudio".
It's easy to remove and easy to reinstall again.