Sound not working in games (ppracer, neverball, etc)

[BeatBoxRocker]

I hope i didnt choose the wrong section :)

I have downloaded some games but i cant get the sound to work with them. The other programs like Amarok or xmms works well.

I Have been searching in the forum and tried some possible solutions but i cant fix this. I have installed libsdl1.2debian-all, killed esd before running the game from console, closed any program that were playing music/sound...

I have a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 and an integrated AC'97 but the first one is selected for the sound (editing the /etc/asound.conf).

Any help is apreciated! Saludos!

[qwerty-ubuntu]

Hi, I was having this problem and also tried installing libsdl1.2debian-all, however this didn't work. I read somewhere else to install libsdl1.2debian-esd, this uninstalls libsdl1.2debian-all and has fixed sound in games for me such as barrage and cube and all others I have tried.

Hope that helps

[hanspb]

I had the same problem, and I found out I had to kill esd, the sound daemon while playing the game. I made a bunch of small scripts using this template:

killall esd
name_of_game
esd &

This kills esd, starts the game and restarts esd when the game is finished. Remember that the "&" in the last line is important, as it runs esd in the background.