There are times when I feel like procrastinating and when I do, sometimes I like play the popular turn-based RTS game Battle for Wesnoth. I like to play BfW with sound though. I like hearing Delfador’s thunder clap when he lowers the boom on an orc Chieftain twice his size and I like hearing the well put-together background music as I plot to defend against a legion of undead sent by the queen to try and end my attempt at reclaiming the thrown which is rightfully mine.
Anyway, to fix this issue, I installed the debian SDL library with X11 graphics and Pulse audio compiled Ubuntu Karmic has available in the repository.
Pulse audio is the default sound system used in Ubuntu Karmic.
Here’s the step by step
Step 1: Install by issuing the following command:
sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio
This will automatically remove libsdl1.2debian-alsa which will trigger a warning presented by dpkg.
Step 2: Kill the existing instance of pulseaudio by issuing the following command:
killall pulseaudio
Step 3: Play Battle for Wesnoth with sound.
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Thanks! It works!
happy smiting my friend!
I am pleased to come across this blog and I find out this article is helpful for me so I’ve scraped it using scrapebook(firefox addon). But I need your help can you recommend any books about ubuntu? thx
Hi azteasan. I’m afraid I didn’t learn to use Ubuntu through any books or anything like that – I was fortunate enough to have enough free time to do some learning on my own.
It should be easier for you nowadays anyway – Ubuntu is a lot more put together than it was back in the day I started to blindly feel my way around.
A good source of information is the ubuntu forums at: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask and I will do my best to answer them for you or at least point you to the right direction
Excellent tip. Worked perfectly, thank you much