Public bug reported: Since Maverick ships without OSS modules in the 2.6.35 kernel and therefore /dev/dsp does not exist at runtime, various applications that rely on OSS exhibit broken and undesirable behaviour, eg:
* Alien Arena segfaults during sound initialisation ((I tried version 7.45) * wine apps like Torchlight and Age of Empires 3 have no sound, and there are no errors indicating what the cause might be A workaround is to run the application using padsp (eg "padsp ./crx" for Alien Arena and "padsp wine Torchlight.exe"). I guess it is an intentional decision to deprecate OSS: if so, the problem is that the reason behind these crashes/lack of sound is not all all obvious to the casual user. Perhaps an entry in the Ubuntu release notes noting that some applications that rely on OSS will be broken and detailing the padsdp workaround would be useful. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: linux-image-2.6.35-19-generic 2.6.35-19.28 Regression: Yes Reproducible: Yes ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. AplayDevices: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: I82801AAICH [Intel 82801AA-ICH], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801AA-ICH] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: rocko 1283 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'I82801AAICH'/'Intel 82801AA-ICH with STAC9700,83,84 at irq 21' Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9700,83,84' Components : 'AC97a:83847600' Controls : 34 Simple ctrls : 24 Date: Tue Sep 7 15:16:01 2010 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=5c2c0283-459c-4809-a8d1-5e0bb43f21f8 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100602.2) Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 008: ID 80ee:0021 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic root=UUID=c7586c69-5914-406e-ab3d-a671796fed2d ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38 RfKill: SourcePackage: linux dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2: dmi.product.name: VirtualBox dmi.product.version: 1.2 dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 kernel-sound maverick needs-upstream-testing regression-release -- sound is broken in Maverick apps that rely on OSS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/632208 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs