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		DiabloD3 on Jan 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux It will, put export SDL_AUDIODRIVER="alsa" in your .bashrc and relogin

moccajoghurt on Jan 25, 2013 [–]

If a problem is that easy to solve, I wonder why it doesn't get fixed by the developers. That way thousands of tech impaired users have to google and spend hours to solve this.

DiabloD3 on Jan 25, 2013 | [–]

Because they built their copy of SDL wrong, plus they're building it instead of using the distro provided one.

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