Sound in Tremulous under Ubuntu PulseAudio

Tremulous is our office-favourite time killer.

It uses OpenAL for sound, which does not play well with Ubuntu PulseAudio installation. There is a simple way to convince it to work – just point OpenAL to use ALSA or SDL and it works fine then.

Use this one-liner in your ~/.openalrc

$ cat ~/.openalrc
(define devices '(alsa sdl))

Note from Garoth: Tremulous by default uses SDL instead of OpenAL – to make this work, change it to use OpenAL in the options.