[LAU] Freecycle -- how to get this working on Ubuntu/Debian

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On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:37:26 +0200
luigi curzi <luigi_curzi at yahoo.it> wrote:

> Il giorno Fri, 30 May 2008 14:22:48 +0100 (BST)
> J M Needham <J.M.Needham at bath.ac.uk> ha scritto:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Any ideas how to get Freecycle working with Ubuntu or Debian? Built
> > from repos; I can't get any sound. I've seen an unresolved post
> > where someone got no sound with Jack, and Freecycle is reported to
> > not work with the latest  version of Alsa, (I tried it with Jack
> > 0.109 without success -- didn't show up in Jack). The display works
> > fine; functionally it seems ok apart from jack-all sound.
> > 
> > Would really love to use this as it seems to have some great
> > features not available elsewhere, and wot I need.
> > 
> > God Bless
> > Jonty
> > 
> 
> i have same problem on a debian (sid) machine, with source package and
> deb file.
> 
> i reported a bug to mantainer and developer but not answer.
> 
> ciao
> Luigi
> 

Last time I tried it was on Gutsy, compiled, and it worked. Now on
hardy I also get a: "Oh, anyways we need no sound..Aren't we?"

Is it compiled without sound or something? There's no -h or --help and
the manpage doesn't tell anything about parameters, or anything at all.

ciao,
	Philipp