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An addictive action puzzle game with single player and multiplayer capabilities (Internet or LAN).
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Alsa sound support #83

Closed pphaneuf closed 10 years ago

pphaneuf commented 10 years ago

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).

pphaneuf commented 10 years ago

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.

pphaneuf commented 10 years ago

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.

pphaneuf commented 10 years ago

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.

pphaneuf commented 10 years ago

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!