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Audio / Could not open /dev/dsp, problem reproducing audio

« on: January 10, 2012, 05:36:09 pm »

Hello everyone,
I'm really new to SFML and game programming, fairly new with Ubuntu, and just decent with C programming (C++ work in progress).

I installed SFML on my Ubuntu 10.10 and I successfully manage to run some tests and create my first basic version of Pong. Now...I tried to add sounds to my game simply adding after the initialization

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if(!introMusic.OpenFromFile("music.ogg")){
return;
}

introMusic.Play();

When I compile I have no errors, but when I run the program the music doesn't start and I get the following message in the terminal

AL lib: oss.c:169: Could not open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

I googled it and looked around for a solution but I couldn't find one...
The thing is that there is no /dev/dsp in my PC, so my guess is that the program is trying to open the wrong device. Maybe I didn't installed properly libsndfile and/or openal, so I tried reinstall them via Synaptic Package Manager.

Ah..all the other sounds work on my computer

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me!
Happy programming to everyone!