ALSA & Pulseaudio problem

[PranQster]

I am running Mandriva 2010.1/2011.0 (cooker):

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uname -a
Linux mjollnir 2.6.35.4-server-1mnb #1 SMP Sun Aug 29 00:34:32 BRT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

When I run Launcher.bin, I get the following error:

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Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

AL lib: alsa.c:587: Could not open playback device 'default': Connection refused
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Segmentation fault

If I run qjackctl, I can only run it in 'dummy' mode and then I still get this:

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ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

AL lib: alsa.c:587: Could not open playback device 'default': Connection refused
Segmentation fault

I have seen the Connection refused error with pulseaudio before when trying to open the various pulseaudio utilities, but my other games which use ALSA run fine with no errors.

I suppose I should state that I do have openal installed:

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urpmi openal
Package openal-1.12.854-1mdv2010.1.i586 is already installed

urpmi alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
Package libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.23-2mdv2010.1.i586 is already installed

Is there a way to force this game with a command to use OSS instead of ALSA?

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I removed libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio, after reading about similar problems with pulseaudio in another forum.
Now the Connection Refused error is gone, but I now have:

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ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
AL lib: alsa.c:587: Could not open playback device 'default': No such device or address
Segmentation fault

Will keep working on this...