Alsa sound support

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Please add alsa support in quadra.

Some context information:

I am using the alsa dmix plugin (which is now default among modern
distributions). This way, all programs which use alsa can share the sound card.

But since quadra doesn't support alsa, I can't hear the nice and funny
sounds from quadra while listening to music in amarok (which uses alsa).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by PVinc...@googlemail.com on 21 Aug 2008 at 3:33

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Ok I just figured out that there is a quadra-sdl branch. But since I have some
compilation errors, I can't test if it uses/works with alsa.

Original comment by PVinc...@googlemail.com on 21 Aug 2008 at 4:08

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It'd be very interested if you could file an issue about your compilation 
error. I
guess I'll keep that one open until we can verify that the quadra-sdl branch 
fixes
the sound problem.

Original comment by pphaneuf on 21 Aug 2008 at 9:43

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: OpSys-Linux, Usability

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I filed http://code.google.com/p/quadra/issues/detail?id=88 about the 
compilation issue.

I managed to compile quadra-sdl on another computer (gentoo), then copied the
binaries to the computer where I had the sound issues: now it works fine. I can
listen to music and hear the sounds from quadra at the same time. I guess that 
using
SDL implicitly uses alsa.

You can close this bug.

Thanks.

Original comment by PVinc...@googlemail.com on 22 Aug 2008 at 1:11

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Using SDL doesn't guarantee that ALSA will be used, it has multiple driver 
backends,
but it's definitely out of our hands. Thanks for verifying!

Original comment by pphaneuf on 22 Aug 2008 at 5:11

• Changed state: Invalid