[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#813709: Bug#813709: libasound2:i386: No sound in source engine based steam games

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Control: severity -1 normal

* Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi at tiscali.it> [2016-02-04 16:56 +0100]:

> Package: libasound2
> Version: 1.1.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Version 1.1 of this library doesn't seem to be fully compatible with
> version 1.0.

Hmm, version 1.0 was never released in Debian and never existed at
alsa project?

> Steam games based on source engine can output no sound at all.
> 
> > SDLAUDIO: SDL_OpenAudioDevice() failed: ALSA: Couldn't open audio device: Invalid argument

That seems seems to be a problem with steam itself. What tells:

$ printenv | grep SDL

> I have opened a bug to steam upstream for this,
> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4296
> 
> However since it is not a major release, I would expect the library to be
> compatible with the previous version.

steam doesn't depend on libasound.

Elimar
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