Second Life Crashing in Karmic

[Naiki Muliaina]

Lotsa folk seem to be suffering from continuous crashes and sound problems in Karmic 64bit. It fizzles, crackles, gets worse, then the game crashes. PC specs are:

AMD 6000+ dual core (3.1gz i think)
Nvidia 9800gtx
8GB Black Dragon Ram
Gigabyte GA-MA790X Motherboard - Linkage

I have tried the SDL / Urban terror fix and it hasnt worked for me properly on SL.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[RabidWeezle]

Haven't tried yet, but have you tried with a 3rd party viewer (omvviewer has an ubuntu ppa). Will check it out when I get home though.

--EDIT

Since this is the higher post: The answer is you need to disable openal audio in the secondlife script:

gedit secondlife

then uncomment this line so it looks like so:

export LL_BAD_OPENAL_DRIVER=x

[Naiki Muliaina]

Haven't tried yet, but have you tried with a 3rd party viewer (omvviewer has an ubuntu ppa). Will check it out when I get home though.

Good point, should also add, OMVViewer (my rock in the past) doesnt have a Karmic repo yet. I have used Snowglobe (from the playdeb repo), and the stand alone GreenLife (emerald) and Official (downloaded direct from SL's website) versions. Its the same on all of them.

[VertexPusher]

I use SL a lot in Karmic 64bit. What kind of crashes are you experiencing?

[RabidWeezle]

I will take a look at it when I get out from work in about 3.5 hours, see if I can make it work somehow. I know you can edit some settings in the secondlife startup script, perhaps there's something we can do in there to make it work. I'm also having popping/fizzling noises from other games aswell, complaining about how it can't connect to the pulseaudio server, I'm guessing it's the same issue of sorts.

[Naiki Muliaina]

I always crash on exit, quit the game and it freezes. I have to kill it to close it. It also randomly freezes during play. Only way out is to kill it.

complaining about how it can't connect to the pulseaudio server, I'm guessing it's the same issue of sorts.

Hmm perhaps i should try gutting everything Pulse from my PC and fill it up with Alsa?

[RabidWeezle]

have you tried the usual deletion of ~/.secondlife (if karmic was upgraded rather than a clean wipe/install)

--edit:
With Karmic, I wouldn't try removing pulseaudio, since it seems to be tied into the distro hardcore now, if you can just make it work with pulseaudio, you would probably be better off.

[Naiki Muliaina]

have you tried the usual deletion of ~/.secondlife (if karmic was upgraded rather than a clean wipe/install)

--edit:
With Karmic, I wouldn't try removing pulseaudio, since it seems to be tied into the distro hardcore now

Ahhh bugger, always had more success with ALSA than Pulse... It was a clean install, not an upgrade.

[RabidWeezle]

Ahhh bugger, always had more success with ALSA than Pulse... It was a clean install, not an upgrade.

I hear ya, before I used kubuntu on jaunty, and I wasn't tied into pulse at all, and SL/Skype/other games worked like a dream. But according to the pulseaudio guys it's not so much to be blamed on pulseaudio but ubuntu's dodgy implimentation of it.

[Naiki Muliaina]

Arf! Ah well, thanks for the response dude! If i have any advancements meself ill post them up here