Hello guys,

I still work on my C++ layer upon Allegro 5 called Meh2D (I've started yesterday to share it on github : https://github.com/remeh/meh2d , nothing is ready but I share the link anyway...)

But I currently have one big problem with Allegro 5 on Linux, my init process freezes when I call al_install_audio(), without any information. What can I do in order to know what is happening ?

I'm using the Allegro 5 provided in my Linux distribution (ArchLinux) in its version 5.0.6.

Thanks in advance ,
remeh

Hey !

Thank you for the advice weapon_S, unfortunately, the allegro.log doesn't contains anything about the audio init.

In order I call :
al_init(), al_init_image_addon(), al_install_keyboard(), al_install_mouse(), al_install_audio(), al_init_acodec_addon(), al_reserve_samples(int).

But in the allegro.log files, the last lines are about the keyboard init (even if the mouse init seems to be ok), but nothing about the audio system... Will try some tweaks in the .cfg.

remeh

Okay, it seems that by default, allegro 5 is now trying to use pulseaudio, because when in the allegro5.cfg I set:

[audio]
driver=alsa

or

driver=openal

Everything works fine, but with driver=pulseaudio, it freezes. It must be on the pulseaudio side as I was thinking that pulseaudio wasn't even setup on my system. (something MUST have changed because before, it wasn't freezing, but I can't know which sound system allegro5 was using).

Well, I'll rely on OpenAL by setting it in the allegro5.cfg, that's good for me. Thanks guys.

I'd say a recommendation in the README to uninstall pulseaudio would be the best solution all around.