Thread: Graal 3, Linux and Sound
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Old 03-11-2005, 11:27 PM
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Graal uses the "fmod" library for sounds. It is quite powerful, but sometimes makes problems, because it wants 16 bit sounds and is not working perfectly with ALSA on some distributions (e.g. debian). It wants best sound quality so it tries OSS first, which is only supporting one single application. If that is not existing, it tries ESD and then ALSA. Normally it shouldn't freeze anymore when starting and the OSS thing is already in use.
It's not really simple to do something about it, can only hope the fmod makers work on fixing the problems. The problem with using sound even if all volumes are set to zero is a bug in Graal though, should be fixed in the next version (in v2 it is not loading the sound stuff if all volumes are set to zero).
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