[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#815368: Bug#815368: libasound2-plugins: Victor Vran game crash with this package installed

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Berillions <berillions at gmail.com> [2016-02-21 01:46 +0100]:

> Package: libasound2-plugins
> Version: 1.1.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I bought and downloaded Victor Vran game on GoG.com (
> http://www.gog.com/game/victor_vran).
> You can see that the game requires libasound2{-data,-plugins}:i386 packages
> dependencies.

I see that this isn't a official Debian package.

> After to downloaded, installed the game and dependencies, i launch the game
> and ... it crashes directly.
> The output console for the crash is this :
> 
>  ----------
> "berillions at debian64-test:/media/Autres/Jeux/Victor Vran$ ./start.sh
> Running Victor Vran
> Language: French
> Voice Language: English
> Protocol error: bad 3 (Window); Sequence Number 5
>  Opcode (20, 0) = GetProperty
>  Bad resource 587630196 (0x23068674)
>  at -e line 15.
> *** Texture headers: 5568 loaded, 0 newer, 3 ms
> 
> *** graphics info
> GPU                         GeForce GTX 970M/PCIe/SSE2
> API                                opengl
> Platform: {
>     desktop = true,
>     developer = false,
>     editor = true,
>     gog = true,
>     goldmaster = true,
>     linux = true,
> }
> 
> support/gog_com.shlib : ligne 94 : 15328 Erreur de segmentation  (core
> dumped)./"${bin_64}""

There is no reference to a alsa bug

>  ----------
> 
> For my first test, i uninstalled the libasound2-plugins package and i
> re-launched the game.
> Result = The game works but i have no sound in-game so it is unplayable.
> The output console when i launch the game without libasound2-plugins
> package is this :
>[...]
> 
> ALSA lib conf.c:3357:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library
> libasound_module_conf_pulse.so

Do you have pulseaudio installed?

> ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> AL lib: alsa.c:512: Could not open playback device 'default': No such file
> or directory
> AL lib: oss.c:169: Could not open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

Install alsa-oss and modprobe snd-pcm-oss.

Elimar
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