I have found a possible bug, which I have been reluctant to report since
I haven’t found the time lately to investigate. I just recently bought
a laptop (FYI I got it from Tuxtops the linux laptop company 
that
has an Aureal Vortex 8810 sound card. With all other sound related
applications (including: xplaycd and xmms) it works fine. But any sdl
app that uses sound will play the first couple seconds then stop with
the message: “SDL: Audio timeout - buggy audio driver? (disabled)”. On
exit the programs will freeze, which causes some minor difficulty with
full-screen apps… Since the driver works with all apps EXCEPT sdl, it
could be an SDL bug. And with the whole business of making a stable
release – I figured I would at least speak up. I plan to break out the
debugger but I must warn you I am not sound hacker and will have very
little clue as to what I am doing!!
-- David Snopek
I have found a possible bug, which I have been reluctant to report since
I haven’t found the time lately to investigate. I just recently bought
a laptop (FYI I got it from Tuxtops the linux laptop company that
has an Aureal Vortex 8810 sound card. With all other sound related
applications (including: xplaycd and xmms) it works fine. But any sdl
app that uses sound will play the first couple seconds then stop with
the message: “SDL: Audio timeout - buggy audio driver? (disabled)”. On
exit the programs will freeze, which causes some minor difficulty with
full-screen apps… Since the driver works with all apps EXCEPT sdl, it
could be an SDL bug. And with the whole business of making a stable
release – I figured I would at least speak up. I plan to break out the
debugger but I must warn you I am not sound hacker and will have very
little clue as to what I am doing!!
This is in the FAQ:
http://www.libsdl.org/faq/FAQ-Linux.html#LINUX_14
See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software
Sam Lantinga wrote:
I have found a possible bug, which I have been reluctant to report since
I haven’t found the time lately to investigate. I just recently bought
a laptop (FYI I got it from Tuxtops the linux laptop company that
has an Aureal Vortex 8810 sound card. With all other sound related
applications (including: xplaycd and xmms) it works fine. But any sdl
app that uses sound will play the first couple seconds then stop with
the message: “SDL: Audio timeout - buggy audio driver? (disabled)”. On
exit the programs will freeze, which causes some minor difficulty with
full-screen apps… Since the driver works with all apps EXCEPT sdl, it
could be an SDL bug. And with the whole business of making a stable
release – I figured I would at least speak up. I plan to break out the
debugger but I must warn you I am not sound hacker and will have very
little clue as to what I am doing!!
This is in the FAQ:
http://www.libsdl.org/faq/FAQ-Linux.html#LINUX_14
Thanks! Sometimes I am a fool – all that message for nothing… It is
weird though that only SDL
fumbles over a buggy audio driver.
-- David Snopek