Hello Reimar! Le Mon, 10 May 2010 22:36:47 +0300, Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> a ?crit: > Simple issue simple solution: Ubuntu as usual completely skipped any and > all > quality checks (though in this case they are not the only ones) and > shippes > a completely broken OpenAL version which does ALSA stuff whenever the > library > gets loaded (whoever came up with this deserves to be banned from any > and all > software development for at least a year). > If PulseAudio is the only thing that this breaks you're lucky. > Solutions: > 1) Remove OpenAL, completely and compile your own MPlayer > 2) Get a non-broken OpenAL package from somewhere and use that instead > 3) Use some kind of wrapper library that redirects ALSA accesses or do > some > other thing that makes sure OpenAL can't actually do anything bad to your > soundcard via ALSA. Argh. Not much more to add. Thank you for your concise answer. Finally, I know where to take things ahead. Now I have to submit a bug report to Ubuntu. Wish me luck. :) Best regards, Mihai -- Mihai Sucan http://www.robodesign.ro
