Frets on Fire won't start

[semuren]

When i try to start Frets on Fire i only get a black flash on the screen and return back to the desktop.

I get these messages from the terminal when I try to start it from the terminal:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:874snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:874snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:874snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:874snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./FretsOnFire.py", line 64, in <module>
engine = GameEngine(config)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/GameEngine.py", line 149, in __init__
self.audio.open(frequency = frequency, bits = bits, stereo = stereo, bufferSize = bufferSize)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Audio.py", line 49, in open
pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.error: No available audio device
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 78, in apport_excepthook
report_file = open(pr_filename, 'wt')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/var/crash/_usr_share_games_fretsonfire_game_FretsOnFire.py.1 000.crash'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./FretsOnFire.py", line 64, in <module>
engine = GameEngine(config)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/GameEngine.py", line 149, in __init__
self.audio.open(frequency = frequency, bits = bits, stereo = stereo, bufferSize = bufferSize)
File "/usr/share/games/fretsonfire/game/Audio.py", line 49, in open
pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.error: No available audio device


Anyone got an idea on how too fix it?

[DrStein]

Hello,

I have the same problem.
I'm sure this is another issue brought to us by Hardy Heron and PulseAudio.

Please, any hints are welcome.

[DrStein]

Okay, you can run it using pasuspender as prefix (note that the same applies to other applications).

pasuspender fretsonfire

Regards.

[bartkl]

Thanks, that works. But why?

[rodrigo666]

Yeah, that worked of me too. But why?

[RIchard James13]

man pasuspender

pasuspender is a tool that can be used to tell a local PulseAudio sound
server to temporarily suspend access to the audio devices, to allow
other applications access them directly. pasuspender will suspend
access to the audio devices, fork a child process, and when the child
process terminates, resume access again.

So basically it tells pulse audio to get lost and let frets access the sound system directly.