No Audio - 64-bit w/ Arch-based Linux

[Neko-san]

For some reason, the game has no audio for me
 

System Info:

OS: EndeavourOS (Arch-based Linux)
Desktop Environment: KDE
CPU: Ryzen 3700X
GPU: RTX 2080 Ti
GPU Driver: (Proprietary) 460.39

(Plugged into TV w/ HDMI and headset plugged in)

[nbohr1more]

You are using thedarkmod.x64 executable, correct?

Did you set drivers = alsa  in your alsoft.conf ?

 

[stgatilov]

You should try to enable OpenAL logging.

It is done by setting two environment variables:

export ALSOFT_LOGLEVEL=3
export ALSOFT_LOGFILE=openal_log.txt

[Neko-san]

Wait, so, 1: there isn't a alsoft.conf file in the game directory

2: If I enter those alsoft commands in my terminal, it won't have unexpected affects on other software, right?

[stgatilov]

8 hours ago, Neko-san said:

2: If I enter those alsoft commands in my terminal, it won't have unexpected affects on other software, right?

There will be effect on all programs started with these env. vars.
I'm not good in bash, but I think the export-ed env. vars only take effect on all programs started from the shell where you did export, and until you close the shell.

Also the only "unexpected effect" would be OpenAL writing log files.

[Neko-san]

I attached the OpenAL log and my terminal log here:

openal_log.txt terminalLog.log

[stgatilov]

Judging from Could not open playback device 'default' message, "default" device for ALSA is not configured properly.

I hope someone more familiar with ALSA configuration could explain how to change the default.

[stgatilov]

Another major message is pcm_dmix.c:1075:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave, which is probably the reason by default device cannot be used by ALSA.

[ashpl]

Hello,

I also had some sound problems with The Dark Mod recently. There is this thread covering an issue related to pulseaudio, but in my case it was something more low-level. I think the OpenAL error was a bit different than yours, but I managed to solve the problem by updating the .asoundrc file this way :

pcm_slave.slavej {
  pcm "hw:0"
  channels 2
  rate 44100
}
pcm.plugj {
  type plug
  slave slavej
}

Always worth a try I guess. i found the solution on on the Arch Linux forum.

Edited February 9, 2021 by ashpl
effed up the code block