[Dup] Pulse audio

[ewomer]

For me I dont like to use pulse audio but in oreder to get steam to run I needed to install pulse ( the 32bit libs since I'm on Gentoo amd64) on my system. I think pulse should be a choice not a requirement.

[ZeXx86 [Linux]]

I running Steam and TF2 with pure Alsa under Arch. Just switch SDL to Alsa backend:
Look here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#No_audio

[mruuh]

Does your microphone work in game without pulseaudio? Mine doesn't.

[Diversant]

Hmmm.. I'll try to take in mind such a clue, because neither I managed to get sound without pulseaudio.

[ewomer]

I had sound without pulse since before I posted this SDL_AUDIODRIVER="alsa" was already set. the problem was that I couldn't start steam without installing pulse since its one of it's dependencies.

[ewomer]

Of course now its making a liar out of me.

[Al@rm]

Originally posted by MCA-5 Rake:

For me I dont like to use pulse audio but in oreder to get steam to run I needed to install pulse ( the 32bit libs since I'm on Gentoo amd64) on my system. I think pulse should be a choice not a requirement.

I asked about it earlier =)
I agree with you, TF2 needs to check settings and use alsa as sdl audiodriver

[ewomer]

After uninstalling pulse.

steam
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354925460_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354925460_client)
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354925460_client)
[1210/110239:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
[1210/110239:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
client_api.cpp (273) : Assertion Failed: ClientAPI_InitGlobalInstance: InternalAPI_Init_Internal failed.

Assert( Assertion Failed: ClientAPI_InitGlobalInstance: InternalAPI_Init_Internal failed.
):/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/steamui/../common/steam/client_api.cpp:273

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354925460_client)
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/assert_20121210110240_1.dmp
success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-629cde39-6e30-476a-a65d-0397f2121210
SteamStartup.cpp (569) : Assertion Failed: ! "There was a problem with your Steam installation.\n" "Please reinstall steam.\n"
Main.cpp (577) : Assertion Failed: SteamShutdownSteamBridgeInterface failed:
Shutting down. . .
unlinked 2 orphaned pipes
CAsyncIOManager: 0 threads terminating. 0 reads, 0 writes, 0 deferrals.
CAsyncIOManager: 73 single object sleeps, 14 multi object sleeps
CAsyncIOManager: 0 single object alertable sleeps, 1 multi object alertable sleeps
FATAL: exception not rethrown
/home/salamanderrake/Steam/steam.sh: line 287: 27837 Aborted $DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

[Frank]

This is being tracked here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/32

[ifohancroft]

Guys, you all say 'installing pulseaudio the 32bit libs' but which packages exactly? P.S. I am running Fedora 18 x86_64