A Ventrilo Compatible Client for Linux
Mangler with ALSA support
For all of the PulseAudio haters out there, “Haxar” in our IRC channel has written a patch that gives Mangler native ALSA support. This is now in the latest SVN revision with a couple of new options to configure. To build with ALSA, run:
./configure --enable-alsa
Then rebuild Mangler and give it a go. It hasn’t been tested extensively, so let us know if it does or does not work for you. And come join us on IRC and give Haxar big slobbery kisses for his effort.
Update: In the latest SVN revision, ALSA is enabled by default if you have the appropriate libraries.
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about 2 months ago
YAY!!! I was actually navigating to this site to suggest Alsa support and saw this on the top of the screen!
It’s not so much that we hate Pulseaudio, but more that it seems to hate working well with many distros and there, unfortunately, doesn’t really seem like there’s enough being done about it.
Anyway, thank you for being aware and providing a much needed work around
I will give this a try and keep you posted on my findings.
about 1 week ago
There has been a lot of resistance in the community to PulseAudio, Wine, which has a wonderful patch sitting on their bugzilla, also has a massive flame from the powers that be there, that basically say, no matter how good the patch is, or how well it works, or how many users use PulseAudio, it will never be pushed upstream. This is only one example of many where the community has outright rejected PulseAudio.
It’s a catch 22, no one wants to implement it, because “no one uses it”, and no one wants to use it because it’s never implemented. Thankfully Mangler is apart of the solution, not the problem =).
about 2 months ago
Okey dokey,
In order to successfully compile the trunk build from SVN,
I had to install what is listed for debian users minus Pulseaudio (build-essential libgtkmm-2.4-dev libpulse-dev libgsm1-dev libspeex-dev)
and additionally libasound2-dev for the alsa dev and library files.
After installing all these packages, it compiled without a hitch, worked perfectly out of the box and I can hear and it sounds perfect to others.
This is all on a Kubuntu 9.10 64 bit box by the way.
I will post this in the forums as well.
I can’t say thank you enough as every new development like this will help the Linux user-base grow.
about 2 months ago
You didn’t give Haxar a big sloppy kiss though…
about 2 months ago
I did on the forum post
about 1 month ago
man… i just have to say YOU are the reason i now use the linux kernel 24/7. living without ventrilo on a linux machine was too hard, but now there is absolutely no reason to stay with windows. not that i’m a windows hater, but my abilities with the shell are so beyond what i do with windows. THANK YOU, YOU ARE GODS!!
about 1 month ago
Now we just need OSSv4
about 1 month ago
Agreed completely, when they get OSSv4 (or even just OSS in general) support, i’ll finally be able to use this for my games of Urban Terror