No sound in TF2

[Katniss Evermiss]

I was playing a game of TF2 and had to stop mid-play to go AFK so I turned my volume down (via keyboard slider); when I came back and turned the volume back up there was no sound.

I use ALSA (Debian 64bit, Sid), everything else that uses the sound card works, Steam's bleeps from chat messages work, everything except TF2.

Does anyone have a (possible) solution to my problem?

[Katniss Evermiss]

Never mind, installed pulseaudio.

[ZeXx86 [Linux]]

Цитата допису C0BRA:

Never mind, installed pulseaudio.

PulseAudio is not needed, look here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#No_audio
Start steam with this command: SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa steam

[mdkcore]

exactly, that export solves the problem on Slackware too

[Katniss Evermiss]

Цитата допису ZeXx86:

Цитата допису C0BRA:

Never mind, installed pulseaudio.

PulseAudio is not needed, look here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#No_audio
Start steam with this command: SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa steam

Awesome, thanks!

[HACKhalo2]

Цитата допису ZeXx86:

Цитата допису C0BRA:

Never mind, installed pulseaudio.

PulseAudio is not needed, look here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#No_audio
Start steam with this command: SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa steam

Even though this works, it's still a work around. Steam needs to automatically set SDL_AUDIODRIVER to whatever the system has, defaulting with ALSA if nothing is found.

[ivan]

Цитата допису HACKhalo2:

Even though this works, it's still a work around. Steam needs to automatically set SDL_AUDIODRIVER to whatever the system has, defaulting with ALSA if nothing is found.

Thank you. Now I have sound.

[dimgel]

Same here, SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa helped. Gentoo/amd64, KDE 4.9.3.

[hasues]

I tried this and have spotty results. I received this error:
ALSA lib pcm.c:7339:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20121217190021_1.dmp
success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-0c3c7caf-47b0-479c-9a7f-3c51d2121217
Team Fortress 2 Beta/hl2.sh: line 72: 14171 Segmentation fault ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@"
CCrossProcessPipe::BWrite wrote too few bytes: 32 (Broken pipe). Continuing.
Game removed: AppID 520 "Team Fortress 2 Beta", ProcID 14171
saving roaming config store to 'sharedconfig.vdf'
roaming config store 2 saved successfully
steam.sh: line 287: 14115 Terminated $DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

[akmelius]

I solve mine with two variables:
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa
export AUDIODEV=hw:0,0

[SUSEd]

Цитата допису akmelius:

I solve mine with two variables:
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa
export AUDIODEV=hw:0,0

 env SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa AUDIODEV=hw:0,0 STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam

in one line

[Casp]

Hi, Everyone...

I am experiencing the same problem but am not comprehending where to make this line change to the Linux Steam environmental variables. :(

Could someone, perhaps, let me know precisely how and where to interject the magic command that is changing everybody's Steam experience (setting sound to alsa)? I would need to know where the necessary folder is located, and which file within that.

Thanks so much...

(Casp is clueless...)

[Katniss Evermiss]

Just make a new shell script, and inside it place:

export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa
export AUDIODEV=hw:0,0
/bin/steam

Then execute

[Casp]

Cobra...

Your name is coincidental to my effort to restore sound in the Steam Linux client, as I am trying to see if I can get iBomber Defense to play (published by COBRA)...

Thank-you so much for your help. I created a script and executed it. (The location of the Steam installation folder in my system is /usr/bin/steam.) It did not restore sound (but I will paste the readout of the terminal):

Anyway, that is where I am--and thanks, again... C.

whit@HAL:~$ cd Desktop
whit@HAL:~/Desktop$ sh scriptsteam1
Warning: Your steam package is out of date. Please get an updated version from your package provider or directly from http://repo.steampowered.com/steam for supported distributions.
Running Steam on ubuntu 12.10 32-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
[2013-02-26 20:25:07] Verifying installation...
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"

(steam:3756): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",

(steam:3756): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
[0226/202510:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
Generating new string page texture 2: 48x256, total string texture memory is 49.15 KB
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Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
`menu_proxy_module_load': /home/whit/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load

(steam:3756): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load type module: (null)

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
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roaming config store loaded successfully - 1464 bytes.
migrating temporary roaming config store
ExecCommandLine: "/home/whit/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam"
Generating new string page texture 70: 1024x256, total string texture memory is 1.36 MB
Generating new string page texture 71: 128x256, total string texture memory is 1.49 MB
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System startup time: 19.02 seconds
Running Steam on ubuntu 12.10 32-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/whit/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
ExecCommandLine: "/home/whit/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam steam://open/driverhelperready"
ExecSteamURL: "steam://open/driverhelperready"
Shutting down. . .
unlinked 2 orphaned pipes
CAsyncIOManager: 0 threads terminating. 0 reads, 0 writes, 0 deferrals.
CAsyncIOManager: 171389 single object sleeps, 0 multi object sleeps
CAsyncIOManager: 0 single object alertable sleeps, 1 multi object alertable sleeps
whit@HAL:~/Desktop$

[Toquita]

When I had no sound on openSUSE I edited a file called ".bashrc" on my home folder so I don't need to launch Steam via Terninal

See more: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846941710326695083/#c864960354163775937

[Adrian Nyanberg]

Wheezy, 64bit, alsa, "SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa steam" works for me. Thanks :)