[Openal] Second Life and 1.9.563

[Chris Robinson]

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 6:16:57 am Tom Porter wrote:
> Second Life apparently opens
> different streams for different things.  Voice, media (like an
> internet radio stream) and the base UI stream for feedback and
> environment sounds.  They all work just fine with 1.9.563 except the
> base UI stream.  The PulseAudio manager shows the stream is started
> under 'Sinks' but I do not get audio.  I can play in-world internet
> radio streams and use voice (capture and playback) without issue.

Hi. Do you happen to know if Second Life has OpenAL mix it all and play it out 
the open device, or does it only use OpenAL for some things (eg. UI, 
environment), and other APIs for the rest (media, voice)?

Does it print any AL lib messages to the console when run from the command 
line, or does it perhaps redirect stderr to a log file of its own?

Also, does it happen to work if you set drivers=alsa and disable ALSA's mmap 
with 
[alsa]
mmap = off
in ~/.alsoftrc?

If you can, it may also be worth trying to uninstall PulseAudio and use ALSA 
directly (or some other way to disable PulseAudio and make it let you use ALSA 
directly, not through the pulse plugin).