Sound on Linux

[Bo Rossen]

Hi,

I am having audio streaming issues on Linux. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, and have both the regular client and Emerald installed.

In the regular viewer, there is no streaming audio period. In Emerald, the sound is stuttering. Whenever I play the stream in VLC it is perfectly fine.

Is anyone else having similar issues?

[Glennfiddich Greybeard]

I am running the same version, and had some sound issues at first.  I finally got everything working by removing the comment in the startup script for secondlife that says "export LL_BAD_OPENAL_DRIVER=x".

 

Oh, I'm going to figure you already got this, but I missed it first time through.  The stream settings in preferences are set to not allow streaming media with the initial load.  I had to also check those boxes to allow it.

 

Check out the wiki, there are a lot of good suggestions in there too.  http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linux_Viewer

[Bo Rossen]

Thanks Glennfiddich,

I wasn't aware of the options in the script. Never even looked at the script to be honest lol.

But yeah I meddled with it, and this was exactly the one that worked!

[Netsya Gandt]

That is my problem exactly.

The issue is that I am new to Linux... am running Ubuntu 9.10.(Also fairly new to SL)

I'm not sure which file/script those options are in. Um, help? lol.

Thanks!

[NOfear Orfan]

Works on 10.04 x64

I have struggled w this a while

 

thx

[Boroondas Gupte]

Netsya Gandt wrote:

I'm not sure which file/script those options are in.

It's the file called secondlife (the one you probably use to start the Viewer), in the top Level of the directory created when unpacking the tar.gz-package.