Ubuntu 12.04, removed pulseaudio, no steam sound

[hunter_thom]

I removed pulseaudio a while back to resolve an issue I was having with WINE+Steam. Now, though, Steam for Linux does not seem to recognize my sound card, as the errors I see when running Steam from a terminal indicate it is unable to connect to pulseaudio; Does anyone else have a similar setup and seeing the same thing? Everything else on my PC uses ALSA default and works perfectly, including Steam on WINE.

I also cannot seem to find a configuration option to use my ALSA default card. I see some options in the Voice Settings, but setting that to ALSA Default has no effect, and I still see pulseaudio errors when using Steam and either Big Picture or a game.

Thanks in advance!

[Letalis Sonus]

Plain ALSA works just fine over here. PulseAudio is still installed but not running at all, though (it bugs out with my card anyway).

[AJSB]

Try a fresh install of UBUNTU, video driver , etc.

Then, (this was how i done it in L.MINT) remove pulseaudio this way....it doesn't fully removes everything, there will be stuff around related to pulseaudio but everything works flawless in L.MINT and i solved my VOIP problem with ETQW:

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss
sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsamixergui gnome-alsamixer alltray
sudo reboot
gstreamer-properties

choose ALSA in both fields for Input and Output in the Audio Tab in gstreamer-properties

i actually don't use either alsamixergui or gnome-alsamixer instead i still prefer use alsamixer
and then after all is selected / tuned i issue comand:

sudo alsactl store

alltray is not really needed but is handy :)

Some of those things should be by default installed in your distro...but you have to be sure.

In the past i fully removed PA, i mean everything that had pulseaudio in it's name...NOT a good idea , trust me....yes, i also end up with a machine with broken audio....

[boot]

Steam actually stopped playing sounds all together since last update (client and bigpicture, games work fine).

Kubuntu 12.10 64-bit.

[ale.bol]

You should follow this post: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/882965737456862913/#p3

I've personally solved the problem by installing libsdl and by

export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

before launching steam from terminal.

[blackout24]

引用自 ale.bol：

You should follow this post: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/882965737456862913/#p3

I've personally solved the problem by installing libsdl and by

export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

before launching steam from terminal.

This.

For Steam on Wine PA support you might need the corresponding 32 bit libs.

[slouken]

Please report a bug here:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues

Thanks!