Bug 160962

Summary:	SDL should use ALSA output by default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jens Knutson <jensk.maps>
Component:	SDL	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
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Version:	4	CC:	gajownik, joukj, marius.andreiana, rth
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Description Jens Knutson 2005-06-19 09:58:21 UTC

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Description of problem:
When playing some of the SDL games from Fedora Extras (SuperTux, Starfighter, etc), I was getting corrupted/clipped music and sound effects.  I noticed that when I launched these games that the vile esound daemon was getting launched, too.

A bit of googling, I found that exporting "SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa" fixed this completely.  I'm not sure how this should be accomplished, but given that Fedora is pushing for pure ALSA usage, it seems like ALSA should be the default for SDL.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
SDL-1.2.8-3.2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install SuperTux from Fedora Extras
2. Get corrupted/clipped sound
3. Quit SuperTux
4. Open a shell and do "export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa"
5. from that shell, launch SuperTux
6. enjoy the sounds and music as they were intended
  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Richard Henderson 2005-08-24 04:46:53 UTC

Agnostic to whether a daemon should be preferred over direct sound access
(see SDL-1.2.3-prefersounddaemons.patch included in the rpm), note that OSS
is searched before ALSA.  Which ought to be considered a bug under FC[45].

The fix being as simple as modifying the table in src/audio/SDL_audio.c.

Comment 2 Marius Andreiana 2005-11-03 09:18:10 UTC

Could this be fixed before FC5 beta1 comes out this month?

Comment 3 Thomas Woerner 2006-01-27 13:20:57 UTC

Fixed in rawhide in rpm SDL-1.2.9-4 and in FC-4 updates in rpm SDL-1.2.8-4.