[Slackbuilds-users] audio in steam

[Ryan P.C. McQuen]

On Jun 30, 2015 11:30 PM, "Miguel De Anda" <miguel at thedeanda.com> wrote:
>
> thanks king. good point.
>

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> ryan: thanks for the link. that magically fixed it. i guess my sbo
> build didn't work for some reason. i built it before switching kernels
> and had switched back to confirm. either way, i'm happy now... too bad
> i'm too tired to play now. perhaps tomorrow.
>

Not magic. Read the SlackBuild:
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/steamclient/build/steamclient.SlackBuild

It adds some parameters to the steam executable, exporting the
SDL_AUDIODRIVER to use ALSA. The SBo version should probably do the same.

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> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Ryan P.C. McQuen <ryan.q at linux.com>
wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 30, 2015 11:17 PM, "King Beowulf" <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 06/30/2015 10:27 PM, Miguel De Anda wrote:
> >> > $aplay -l
> >> > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> >> > card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog]
> >> >   Subdevices: 1/1
> >> >   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> >> > card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital]
> >> >   Subdevices: 1/1
> >> >   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> >> >
> >> > i just downloaded a sample wav file and ran `aplay filename.wav` and
i
> >> > heard audio.
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Ryan P.C. McQuen <ryan.q at linux.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Jun 30, 2015 10:23 PM, "Miguel De Anda" <miguel at thedeanda.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> its a desktop with GeForce GTX 260 - dual dvi, the board has: SBx00
> >> >>> Azalia (Intel HDA). it has a optical out but not plugged into
> >> >>> anything.
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >> What is the output of `aplay -l`?
> >> >>
> >> >> ---
> >>
> >> Nvidia HDMI uses the kernel module 'snd_hda_intel' as does your Azalia
> >> mobo chip.  Steam is notorious for getting confused.  (yes, your GPU
has
> >> HDMI sound capability.) Gerneric or huge kernel? lsmod output (ie
> >> missing module dependencies), installed pulseaudio (egad!); also
output of
> >>
> >> $ aplay -L
> >>
> >> I would HIGHLY recommend NOT screwing around with a kernel recompile to
> >> "eliminate" audio devices/modules. There is no way we can know what you
> >> screwed up. Your questions is better asked on Linuxquestions.org for
> >> better visibility, and not on a SBo mail list as is has nothing to do
> >> with SBo.
> >
> > The King is right. Still, head here:
> >
> >
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/14.1/x86/steamclient/
> >
> > ---
> >>
> >> So get they to LQ. Search first: your question might gave been answered
> >> already.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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