Issue report - TF2: Mic stops working after a while

steamclosed MOVED: Team Fortress 2reviewed

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#938 · opened 2013-01-26 by ghost · updated 2013-02-15 · 4 comments · github

?ghost 2013-01-26 github

I'm using Kubuntu 12.10, with an onboard VIA AC 97 chip, running Pulse and ALSA.

After a round or two of TF2, my mic stops working completely for no apparent reason. It's not even recognized by the overlay or the in-game options (there's no input according to the bar)

In Steam settings my mic is properly configured (although I could not set it to the default: "Pulseaudio default" input since it doesn't appear once I've changed it for the first time) and works.

In alsamixer and pavucontrol the mic always works.

Any help?

EDIT:
I did some testing today and there's nothing relevant to sound in the console after the mic stops working. Nor can I copy paste the console output because when I managed to reproduce it, hitting shift+ctrl+C on the console crashed the game and different errors covered them.

How to reproduce: Play a match. Sometimes it happens on the first match, sometimes it does after many matches.

Sys info:
Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3214 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-22-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11300000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0x1200
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1024 x 768
Desktop Resolution: 1024 x 768
Primary Display Size: 13,66" x 10,24"  (17,05" diag)
                                        34,7cm x 26,0cm  (43,3cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1023 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: VIA VT1705

Memory:
RAM: 3954 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: es_UY.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 44488 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 4251 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
Wed Jan 30 16:53:21 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130130145314_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-54ad1e4e-9fc2-4de9-a25a-fa3c52130130''
Wed Jan 30 19:54:27 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130130175418_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-c48415c9-6a86-4965-9c91-dc61d2130130''
Wed Jan 30 20:27:06 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130130182658_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-148a7ff5-c507-445d-b1f2-576452130130''
Wed Jan 30 20:27:14 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130130182707_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-a5f66cf4-bbe0-4b45-9f19-97fa92130130''

MMrSchism 2013-01-27 github

Please include information requested at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#reporting-issues to help in debugging the issue.

When running the game from Konsole, do any errors appear (of course, after exiting the game and checking the output)?

?ghost 2013-01-30 github

Updated with the requested information.

Also, I'm not the only one with the issue: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846940248687975649/
And nothing on that thread helped.

?ghost 2013-02-11 github

I will do extensive testing after patching the latest version, which according to the changelog, may have fixed this.

Jjorgenpt 2013-02-15 github

Issue transferred to ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games#90.

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