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

[Ian Wadham]

On Saturday 30 April 2011 1:17:06 am Parker Coates wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 21:52, Ian Wadham wrote:
> > 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
> >
It looks as though this is just a (misleading) debugging message you get if
pulseaudio does not happen to be installed, not an error message.  Sounds
in Granatier play OK, regardless of this message.

Attention Stefan: a small glitch in kdegames/granatier/src/CMakeLists.txt ...
it always links in Phonon, even if GRANATIER_OPENAL is true.

Cheers, Ian W.