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Title: Multiple sound cards under Linux
Post by: Shevek on December 12, 2010, 10:20:14 pm

I have a more or less fresh install of FSO on Kubuntu 10.10 that seems to be working well so far, except I can't get sound. I have tried setting the sound device to both PulseAudio and ALSA in the YAL launcher, but neither works. My hypothesis is that FreeSpace is using the dedicated sound card I have installed, when I want it to use the integrated sound card. I'm not sure how to test that, since I don't have any speakers I can hook up to the dedicated card at this point (I mainly use it for input), and the integrated card is what connects to my headphone port. I could also be totally wrong and I'm just not getting any sound from Freespace at all. Suggestions?

Details of my system are in my signature.

Title: Re: Multiple sound cards under Linux
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on December 12, 2010, 10:30:08 pm

Well the easy way to test is to unplug the headphones from the integrated output and into the card output. 

Title: Re: Multiple sound cards under Linux
Post by: Shevek on December 12, 2010, 10:32:23 pm

The card doesn't have a quarter inch or eighth inch output.

EDIT:

Upon further investigation, I don't think this is a FreeSpace problem, since at least one other application was having similar symptoms. Solved temporarily by disabling the dedicated card while I don't need it.