ATI And Current Linux distributions

[Urkle]

Really there is no data that I am tracking as to what distro everyone is running, only by posts in the forum that a large set of ubuntu users are having issues. But from my experiences documented in the beginning of this thread the issues are not distro specific at all, so getting it to work on fedora would get it working on unbuntu as well. Also, from my experiences most of the problems with ATI users not being able to play the game has to do with them trying to use the open source drivers which, I'm afraid, can not supported at this time.

As for pulseaudio, it sucks. It's not any better than ESD back in the day.. The only time pulse audio is bearable is if you have a multi-core system, which I see as a waste of a CPU core. Personally I'd rather just funnel everything into the hardware and have it do the mixing (I love my SB Live card for that). It's looking like the only way to get the game working smoothly for pulse audio is for me to write something or get openAL to bypass pulseaudio on startup and directly goto the ALSA sound drivers. That's what I've been messing around with, and what is taking so long. Once I get the code into the game to "select the audio destination" I'll start throwing out the patch to get it tested. I'm hoping that will be before the end of the week.