I have been using Fold It for a while under Windows, and after I set up my Toshiba Satellite A505-S6960 laptop as a dual-boot Windows Vista/Ubuntu Linux 9.10 system, I decided to try running the Linux version of Fold It in Ubuntu. Everything so far seems to work okay, but something I noticed right away was that the game was silent.
I have ensured that the checkboxes under General Options in the game for the sound effects and background music were checked, and I have adjusted the volume on the computer itself. Even at full volume, I can hear sound effects from my desktop and other applications, but nothing from Fold It.
I have had the same problem, and it used to work on SuSE Linux, but now doesn't, even if I re-download to another folder.
uname -a gets this
Linux kylesbox 2.6.31.8-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-12-15 23:55:40 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm also uploading my copy of the log.txt file…while chatting with Judecca in-game about this issue, we observed that the game seems to be complaining about not being able to access an audio device.
I have the same problem running 64bit ubuntu 10.04. I think the problem is that the program is not playing nicely with pulseaudio.
I can confirm that the bug is still present in 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04. I have done a fresh install of the OS on both my laptop and desktop, and neither can play Fold It with sound still.
No sound with linux.
Linux apple-desktop 2.6.32-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 16 14:17:33 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Clearly this is the wrong place to get information about fixing it. Is any one listening?
I'm listening, but apparently few others. This should be the correct place for getting this bug fixed, though. I almost think that the developers don't consider it a high-priority issue, or maybe they don't want to fix it because of all the people who claim the sounds are annoying.
…I'm still having this issue, on both my desktop and laptop computers running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. Windows continues to play sound just fine.
I agree that getting sound to work in Linux is of low priority. I ran it in windows just to see what sound added to the experience.
I'm more interested in finding out who the Linux people are and where they hangout. It seems to me that there are too many features enabled between wiki, forums, feedback, and blog.
It would be nice to get the sound working though, because the sounds are part of the download and I find them useful, especially when running recipes that take a while.
