Solarus - Gamepad settings (solved) and sound issues (solved)

mitu

@dteam said in Solarus - Gamepad settings (solved) and sound issues (not solved):

AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackAlsa_mixerProc: Wait timeout... buffer size too low?

This might be related to the sound issue. Do you have PulseAudio installed and active ?

DTEAM

@mitu
I installed the official image from Retropie with the last update.
I never played with sound parameters before. No I guess.

Hhromic told me this on Discord :
@Dteam looks like the audio device is opened by something else and Solarus can't use it.
Do you have something else running in the background that uses the sound output?
Maybe PulseAudio ? I have read recently that it causes trouble sometimes. I understand RetroPie should have disabled it for you automatically.

mitu

@dteam said in Solarus - Gamepad settings (solved) and sound issues (not solved):

I installed the official image from Retropie with the last update.
I never played with sound parameters before. No I guess.

I tested the same game (Book of Mudora) and I have no issues with the sound in Solarus. Check again if you have PulseAudio installed and active - it's installed automatically in Raspberry Pi OS if you install the desktop.

DTEAM

@mitu
Should I do this:

sudo apt-get --purge remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get autoremove

mitu

You can disable PulseAudio from the Audio menu in RetroPie - it will tell you if it's active. Removing it might remove other needed packages also.

DTEAM

@mitu
I don't see this option in the Audio menu.

I have :
0 - HDMI
1 - Headphone
M - Mixer
R - Rest to default

mitu

@dteam Then you don't have PulseAudio installed or it's not active/enabled.

DTEAM

@mitu
Not installed
Audio card = default
Audio device Headphone
enable navigation sounds = on
enable video audion = on
OMX player audio device = alsa

All my emulators working fine except that one. It's strange

mitu

Might be an OpenAL issue. Can you try creating a configuration file - $HOME/.alsoftrc - with the following contents:

[alsa]
mmap = false

and re-try starting a Solarus game ?

DTEAM

@mitu
Wow !!! solved !!! Thanks , you have hit the bullseye !