Hi Daniel, 'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 10/05/10 21:20 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Mihai Sucan <mihai.sucan at gmail.com> wrote: >> Tested with a Guest session (temporarily created user account, always >> fresh/clean). The same happens. I simply start mplayer and pulseaudio stops >> outputting any sound. > > According to http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2010-May/079934.html > this symptom is caused by the outdated version of openal-soft shipped > in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The remarks in that thread are unfortunately > ignorant of the fact that the tag date for 1.12.854 was Tue, 30 Mar > 2010 05:05:21 +0000 (22:05 -0700), which was much too close to Lucid's > release date. Also importantly, unless there is a significantly > compelling reason, the Lucid development cycle synced directly > (without any Ubuntu changes) from Debian testing. Please note that of > this writing, the version of openal-soft in Debian testing *and* > unstable remains the precise version that shipped in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Just out of curiosity, did he refer the 1.12.854 version? Am I right in saying that the version which is hideously broken is the 1.11.753? If so, it doesn't seem to mention this fact in the 1.12.854 release notes which I find confusing. I'm not that familiar with openal-soft so can't really comment, but I want to make sure we avoid any similar problems (considering there are enough other problems right now...) Col > $ apt-cache madison openal-soft > openal-soft | 1:1.11.753-1 | http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ > lucid/universe Sources > $ rmadison -uqa openal-soft > openal-soft | 1:1.4.272-2 | stable | source > openal-soft | 1:1.9.563-1 | unstable | source > openal-soft | 1:1.11.753-1 | testing | source > openal-soft | 1:1.11.753-1 | unstable | source > > Of course this instance is an unfortunate example of newer software > being released while the distribution was in a freeze state. In fact, > WINE as shipped in Lucid suffers from the same classes of problems. At > this point, the only hope of getting a newer openal-soft into Lucid > lies in getting it backported from Maverick, which means that someone > needs to generate and upload that source package to Maverick (which > may well mean Luke, myself, or any other dev, but we're all quite > jet-lagged ATM). > > Best, > -Dan -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
