Hello Dan! Thank you for your detailed answer. It is an unfortunate situation, but I do agree, it's not Ubuntu's "fault" per-se, it is certainly understandable/acceptable. Nonetheless, this is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and I will, perhaps, not upgrade to Maverick. Perhaps I will wait for the next LTS release. Could the new/fixed release of OpenAL be back-ported to Lucid? I do not want to stick two years with broken mplayer/wine audio, nor do I want to make my own horrible "home-patches" to the Ubuntu installation - I mean I wouldn't like to compile my own openal and/or mplayer packages. That is the only thing I ask: lucid-backport ... or an Ubuntu PPA from where me and many other users can get it. If this is possible, please let me know, so I can test it. Thank you again Daniel. Best regards, Mihai Le Mon, 10 May 2010 23:20:07 +0300, Daniel Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com> a ?crit: > 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 this symptom is caused by the outdated version of openal-soft shipped 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: > > $ 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 -- Mihai Sucan http://www.robodesign.ro
