[Kde-games-devel] Re: OpenAL and TagaroAudio

[Parker Coates]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 21:52, Ian Wadham wrote:
> Hi guys, especially Stefan,
>
> I would like to try out TagaroAudio and OpenAL, by running Granatier
> and then maybe trying it in KGoldrunner.  At first Granatier and
> TagaroAudio would not build with OpenAL and reverted to
> Phonon, as intended.
>
> Then I went to install OpenAL devel in my distro (OpenSuSE 11.2) and
> there was none there, but there *was* a full kit of OpenAL Soft and I
> installed that, but had to uninstall OpenAL, because the two OpenAL
> packages conflict.
>
> Granatier now builds for me with OpenAL, but when I run it I get stderr:
> granatier(4974)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
> AL lib: pulseaudio.c:386: Context did not get ready: Connection refused
>
> When I go to install the pulseaudio package, I get a warning from Yast2:
> patterns-openSUSE-kde4_pure-11.3-1.1.1.i586 conflicts with pulseaudio
>
> The alternative actions are to deinstall patterns-openSUSE-kde4 or do
> NOT install pulseaudio-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586.  The first alternative sounds
> like rather strong beer.  So where to now?

Take it up with the openSUSE folks?

Parker