I found a workaround to get sound to work for kqthebetrayer (or kq) in Ubuntu 9.04 or higher. The problem has to with pulseaudio so killing pulse will do the trick. I tried the pulse suspender but that didn’t work for me.

killall pulseaudio
And then just start kq.

Pulse is placed over the top of alsa so your sound should continue to work. You can easily restart pulse by doing a . Maybe I will just remove pulse all together, it doesn’t seem to help anything. But that will have to wait until after I get Jaunty Jackalope. All the great new pulseaudio features and utilities aren’t even installed as default. So it just works worse then before. Great design choice. I tried arch the other day but I don’t really want to go through the trouble of trying to get xorg and kde or gnome to work. I followed their instructions and it didn’t work. So for now it looks like I will stick with Ubuntu where I can spend my time working on my game instead of on trying to get the operating system to work. I used virtualbox to test it out which was a lot better then having to repartition just to test arch. Virtualbox is at the point where it has better functionality than vmware, and its free. Can’t argue with that.