[bugreport and workaround] Fedora 20, 7.1 surround sound

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abe_beson
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[bugreport and workaround] Fedora 20, 7.1 surround sound

#1 Post by abe_beson »

Hi!

I built freeorion from the 0.4.4.1.1 release using osc. I immediately got a segmentation fault when I started freeorion. I opened pavu-control and turned off my 7.1 surround sound leaving only the headset and the game started up nicely. I have seen this problem with other games as well. It seems to be some module expecting 6 output channels to be the maximum but still uses the number of channels from the system which is 8 in this case.

Workaround:

Start a terminal and execute the following:
# install pavucontrol
sudo yum install pavucontrol

# run pavucontrol
pavucontrol
Go to the tab configuration in pavucontrol and put the 7.1 profiles to off (can probably also use any profile less than 7.1)

start the game and enjoy ;)

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Re: [bugreport and workaround] Fedora 20, 7.1 surround sound

#2 Post by Mitten.O »

It's very good of you to provide this information despite having solved the problem for yourself. Thank you.
Any code by me in this post is released under GPL 2.0 or later.

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