Although I know this thread is a few months old, I noticed this error in Lucid, and the patch at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alien/+bug/507326 helped me out.
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Although I know this thread is a few months old, I noticed this error in Lucid, and the patch at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alien/+bug/507326 helped me out.
Although I haven't seen this problem before, have you tried running stepmania prefixed by 'padsp' to put a wrapper around OSS (/dev/dsp) to try and use PulseAudio (the sound server in 8.10?
Try...
Although I haven't done it myself, I think you can. Check out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=517282&highlight=md0
Cocodude