Anyone get DOOM 3 audio working properly with Ubuntu 10.04?

Question

The audio configuration must have changed from 9.10 to 10.04, because audio no longer seems to work with DOOM 3. This was the suggested way to run DOOM 3 before, and it worked fine:

doom3 +set s_alsa_pcm plughw:0

However, DOOM 3 is completely silent after I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04. Has anyone gotten the audio for DOOM 3 to work in Lucid Lynx?

Edit: Here's some potentially useful console output:

------------------------------------
dlopen(libasound.so.2)
asoundlib version: 1.0.22
Alsa is available
------ Alsa Sound Initialization -----
snd_pcm_open SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK 'plughw:0' failed: Device or resource busy
dlclose
WARNING: sound subsystem disabled

Edit2: Well, it seems that DOOM 3 is unable to share, like other applications, so closing Rhythmbox and Chrome and anything else that shows up in Sound Preferences under the Applications tab worked. I would like to get it to play nice like everything else, but that may be too much to ask. If someone can come up with a solution that causes DOOM 3 to coexists peacefully with other applications would constitute an accepted answer. It sucks to have to close everything else first.

Solution 1

Try change the driver to OSS, perhaps like this (sorry I can't verify this command atm):

doom3 +set s_driver oss

Also check that nothing else is using the sound card, like a music player?

Solution 2

Have a look here: PulseAudio - Perfect Setup #Quake3

Solution 3

Try installing the libsdl1.2debian-alsa package.

Solution 4

To get sound working in quake4 (same engine as doom3), I had to combine the 2 suggestions above:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-alsa

doom3 +set s_driver oss

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Comments

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Sadly Doom III stopped working for me after upgrading to 10.04 :/