Ok, I've done more tests. As Ivan Ivanov said, the problem appears only on some devices. If I use another usb audio device or the pc's internal audio card, there is not any problem at all! I don't quite understand why though. And nevertheless I'd really appreciate if I could fix this so that I don't have to switch devices in order to play some games. > This can probably be fixed by deleting the SDL library that comes with > the game, so that it uses the system-wide copy. The difference is that > the system-wide copy hopefully contains explicit support for PulseAudio. Nope. I already tried that. Deleted the .so shipped and symlinked it to my system one without luck. Just to be sure that I didn't mess it up I've just completely deleted the shipped library now (without doing the symlink) and the problem persists. Also, the SDL version they shipped is libSDL2-2.0.so.0, and afaik SDL2 does have pulseaudio support in all versions. By the way, if I do pasuspender, then the game doesn't play any sound even if I export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa. Does that even make sense? Shouldn't pasuspender release the alsa device and shouldn't SDL take control of it? Damn, sound in linux is difficult.
