Le Tue, 11 May 2010 14:02:09 +0300, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> a ?crit: > 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 this symptom is caused by the outdated version of openal-soft shipped 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...) This is an interesting point, indeed. I do recommend contacting Reimar for further details. I can only offer my system for testing - that is, if there's any package of openal available that might fix this issue, then I shall be told, to see if it does really fix the issue I am reporting, or not. Best regards, Mihai -- Mihai Sucan http://www.robodesign.ro
