9.10 problems with graphic and sound

[Pakos]

On 9.04 with libtxc and openal was not bad, some graphical glitches but nothing annoying. After upgrade i see more glitches with graphic (e.g. strange trees, colored weapons, flashing screen - goes black for a second) and sound (music is turned off) sometimes disappear.

Here's a output from a game:

pakos@dell:~/Regnum$ ./rolauncher
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly.
Try adjusting the vblank_mode configuration parameter.

http://dl.pakos.biz/regnum/screensho...2020_39_24.jpg
http://dl.pakos.biz/regnum/screensho...2015_56_30.jpg
http://dl.pakos.biz/regnum/screensho...2017_58_15.jpg

Any ideas? Especially for flashing and sound because that's most annoying and makes game unplayable

ps. 64bit version :>

[Blastermaster77]

Ok people what I did was this:

In the terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/openal/alsoft.conf

change the divice line form Alasa backend stuff to this:

## ALSA backend stuff
##
[alsa]

## device:
# Sets the device name for the default playback device.
device = alsa


remember to un coment it.

Hope this helps.

[Pakos]

im gonna try it at home, ideas about graphic? especially flashing -.-

[TheBold]

Using a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 and Regnum Online and of course installing OpenAL from the repositories, I still had to use the latest ALSA driver.
The sound was corrupted whether I used the Linux Native version or ran it on Wine(for test purposes).

While the ALSA Version 1.1.20 that comes natively in Ubuntu 9.10 is OK, there's something missing, most likely on the back-end. I don't really want to try to figure it out, but there you go.

There is a nice ALSA upgrade script that someone provides on the Ubuntu forums, and I've found it rather helpful. Though the installation takes a while, it works phenomenally. The guy seems to enjoy keeping it updated.

My sound card itself is rather unforgiving, so when you just get sound disappearing...well, mine crackles before disintegrating, which makes me think of corrupted driver.

and blastermaster wouldn't happen to be flaster blaster master blaster, would you?

EDIT:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810

[Pakos]

any ideas about graphic?

[dip1stick]

i dont know if this will help, it seems that the 9.04 kernel is still being loaded as apposed to the new 9.10 kernel,you will need to edit grub to load new kernel, (2.6.31) this has been mentioned in the ubuntu forums, me i think its partly down to pulse audio being crap, hope this helps

[Pakos]

Well i'm always removing old kernels but anyway i'm using latest one now because of fresh installation ;p

[Angelwinged_Devil]

what's your graphic card?

[Pakos]

intel card

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)