Ubuntu 8.10 + pulseaudio + RO without sound + unstable

[Mellion]

Hi,

i did a clean install of ubuntu 8.10 and discovered a strange problem.

1. start regnum. -> I have game sounds.

2. start any other program like firefox/pidgin or whatever which pop ups a window.

3. => no sounds in any program. Regnum still works.

4. exit regnum -> regnum window doesn't close.

5. i crash the window, but regnum still stays in memory.

6. like game, pulsaudio still shows me "futex_wait".

7. can't kill both with sudo kill pid.

8. have to restart computer.

[Froste]

what sound card do you have?

If you're unsure, the following command will list it

lspci | grep -i audio

(I think in ubuntu lspci might be an sbin binary, so if it reports no command found, try putting sudo infront)

[Ynqaas]

I have a same problem with Ubuntu 8.10 a.k.a Intrepid Ignis.

$ lspci | grep -i audio
$ 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

[Mellion]

lspci | grep -i audio
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2)
00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2)


I discussed the problem with Eli. And we came to the conclusion to deinstall all pulseaudio stuff. Back to ALSA it worked.

But of course it would be nice not to have that problem.

[cs42]

I just can say: WFM. Mumble, ro, banshee all at once.

It even works with skype...

[Eli2]

I think i have found another fix to keep Pulseaudio from crashing.
open the
/etc/pulse/default.pa
file, look for the line:
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
and comment it out, so it looks like that:
#load-module module-suspend-on-idle

... Somehow this modules messes up the sinks.