Missing sounds in chromium

[linny129]

I installed it via apt-get. I have music, but no other sounds. All my other games work fine. are there additional files that need to be installed with chromium??

[jdodson]

i remember someone else having the same problems, do a forum search for chromium.

[linny129]

i remember someone else having the same problems, do a forum search for chromium.

Been there, done that. The only post I found on my search was the one hoary area, and it's not the same issue.

Edit: Well I did find this comment in a thread listing games available for linux:

"Kill all sound daemons like esd or artsd before playing if you want sound"

What is the command to do this, or can I just mute them through the sound mixer?

[HungSquirrel]

If you have music, then you don't need to kill sound daemons.

I too lack sound effects other than music.

[linny129]

Killed the esd process - no good still :(

[linny129]

If you have music, then you don't need to kill sound daemons.

I too lack sound effects other than music.

Well then that rules that out..

[linny129]

after running it in a terminal, I noticed I do get this error even though the game runs:

ATTENTION!! Could not load alAttenuationScale
alAttenuationScale == 0. Kludge it.

Looks like it is related to openal somehow, but I am not sure how to fix it.

[HungSquirrel]

This issue affects all games for me that use OpenAL. I get no sound effects in UT2004 or in cedega games. It didn't happen before I did the Hoary upgrade.

Devs, take note! 8)

[Borgmeister]

I have the same problems, ina ll my games, no sound whatsoever, abuse, chromium, tux racer, frozen-bubble, pingus, u name it, it wont make a sound, however, totom-xine plays my files, music or video with all sound present.n I have trawled the net in vain, and still nothing works.

[linny129]

Well I have gone back to SUSE for now - at least I don't have any sound problems with it. I tried Doom Legacy under UBUNTU and couldn't get music. However it runs fine under SUSE and so does chromium

[linny129]

Well I have gone back to SUSE for now - at least I don't have any sound problems with it. I tried Doom Legacy under UBUNTU and couldn't get music. However it runs fine under SUSE and so does chromium

I saw this in the Doom legacy forum - may help someone who is trying to run that:


"You also need a set of patches for Timidity to work. On Debian the package is called timidity-patches or somesuch. Not sure what it is on Ubuntu"

[budda]

The second variant solved the problem for me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3152472&postcount=8