[SOLVED] no sound on Linux

[darkelf]

just bought SPAZ and installed on Linux - game works but there is no sound

EDIT - solved, I am on 64-bit system and lib32 alsa was missing, now it works

[instabilis]

Had the same problem on Fedora 17 64-bit, turned out I needed alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686

[age]

I needed ia32-libs to fix this on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit

[LinuxVR]

I got this on Debian Wheezy, I already had ia32 installed but had to replace the shipped libopenal.so with local ones.

[altralaser]

Arch Linux:
Replacing the shipped openal.so with a link to /usr/lib/openal.so also did the trick for me.

[alkavan]

I'm having trouble doing so on fedora 18:
it's not a good idea to replace system libs.
anyone have suggestions what i'm missing? or how to debug this issue, i really want this to work. if it has it's own openal.so, it should know to use it instead the system one?

$ yum list installed *openal*
Installed Packages
openal-soft.i686 1.14-3.fc18 @fedora
openal-soft.x86_64 1.14-3.fc18 @fedora
wine-openal.i686 1.5.18-1.fc18 @fedora
wine-openal.x86_64 1.5.18-1.fc18 @fedora
$ yum list installed *pulseaudio*
Installed Package
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 1.0.26-2.fc18 @fedora
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 1.0.26-2.fc18 @fedora
pulseaudio.x86_64 2.1-5.fc18 @updates
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks.x86_64 2.1-5.fc18 @updates
pulseaudio-libs.i686 2.1-5.fc18 @updates
pulseaudio-libs.x86_64 2.1-5.fc18 @updates
pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i686 2.1-5.fc18 @updates
pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 2.1-5.fc18 @updates
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth.x86_64 2.1-5.fc18 @updates
pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 2.1-5.fc18 @updates
pulseaudio-utils.x86_64 2.1-5.fc18 @updates
wine-pulseaudio.i686 1.5.18-1.fc18 @fedora
wine-pulseaudio.x86_64 1.5.18-1.fc18 @fedora

[Mirko]

confirmed the problem, the shipped openal library doesn't work.

fedora 17 here

simply renamed the openal.so in the game and sobstiture with a link to the system one
"ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 libopenal.so"

[alkavan]

I tried:

ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 /usr/lib/libopenal.so

is that what you ment? did not work for me...

[Mirko]

Originally posted by Alkavan:

I tried:

ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 /usr/lib/libopenal.so

is that what you ment? did not work for me...

not exactly,

i had gone into the steam installation, and in the directory

SteamLibrary/SteamApps/common/Space Pirates and Zombies

i renamed the file libopenal.so into libopenal.so-notworking

then in that directory I launched "ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 libopenal.so"

this command create in local (steam) directory a link to the system library.

doing so i substituted the library shipped with steam with the system library that function

[v2px]

that worked. thanks!

[Zetta]

In my case, I had to "ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1 .local libopenal.so" in the game directory after installing ia32-libs on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit.

[boolf]

I didn't even have a libopenal.so in my game directory but linking the system one worked like a charm. Thanks!

[Zetta]

Yes, I didn't have the libopenal library in my game directory either. Luckely I read mirkobern's post.

[alkavan]

Oh, FYI ...
It worked for me as well!
I also added comment on related issue i opened on github.

[chemikerhero]

Since the last comments are a little inexact:
The following works: link (ln -s) your openal library to the following path:
"[Steampath]/SteamApps/common/Space Pirates and Zombies"
your openal lib can be found either in "/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libopenal.so" (ubuntu as it seems to me) or in "/usr/lib/openal.so" (arch)

[markov]

why is the symbolic link necessary? for some reason it worked however audio was working for me a day or two ago. tonight it stopped but the sym link worked