How to fix sound in wolfenstein Enemy Territory

I got tired of rebooting to windows just to play wolf-et, so i tried doing clean install of ubuntu 10.10 (maverick).

And after that I just installed Wolfenstein: ET from playdeb and everything works great. http://www.playdeb.net/software/Enemy%20Territory

Not sure why you're running esd. I thought that was kicked out years ago for PulseAudio. If you don't have PulseAudio, I probably wouldn't follow the rest of this answer.

First, make sure SDL can talk directly to Pulseaudio:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386 libsdl1.2debian

Then with the et-sdl-sound script, change SDL_AUDIODRIVER="alsa" to SDL_AUDIODRIVER="pulse".

Sound should magically start flowing into your ears and life will be much better.

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Some people have also in the past had success with temporarily killing PulseAudio (to release the hardware) and manually setting the driver:

pasuspender -- et +set s_alsa_pcm plughw:0