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Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

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On 4/21/24 22:33, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> I should probably be posting this to the Steam forums, but
> most of the denizens there are Windows people so I might be
> better off letting you Debian gurus have a go at it first.
> 
> TL;DR: Copying an existing /home into a fresh Debian installation
> causes audio in Steam games to glitch - but all other sound is OK.
> 
> Full description:
> 
> I have a machine in the living room that stores MP3s and videos
> and serves them to other machines on our network as well as playing
> them locally on our TV's big screen.  I also play a few Steam games
> (e.g. Portal) on it.  It's a 2007-vintage machine, but it has 8GB
> of RAM and enough CPU power to do the job, and runs the latest
> version of Bookworm.
> 
> Recently I decided to upgrade its storage capacity, and replaced
> its 500GB hard drive (which was pretty large at the time I bought
> it) with a 4TB drive.  I did an install from scratch using a
> network install CD, then copied my /home partition (using rsync)
> from the old drive.  Everything works great with one exception:
> when I fire up Portal the sound gets glitches about once a second.
> This only happens with Steam games; I can play MP3s and videos
> with mpv and the sound is perfect, as it is when watching YouTube
> videos.  If I swap the old drive back in everything is fine.
> 
> Obviously my Steam programs and configuration files are in my
> home directory, since the updated system comes up icons and all
> without re-installing Steam, and can find everything it needs to
> run the games.  But perhaps there are a few files somewhere else
> (/usr?) containing information critical to audio for Steam.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> (Side question: is this an acceptable way to upgrade a hard drive?)


Copying a home directory from one OS instance to another OS instance 
sounds risky, especially as I run various OS's.  I have several 
instances of Debian 11, and would not consider them to be identical 
enough to try it.  I only touch the content I create or have learned how 
to manage.


I put my OS on a small SSD and the vast majority of my data on HDD RAID 
in a file server.


As I am the only user on my Debian daily driver, I leave the /home 
directory on the root file system and keep as little as possible in it.


I mount the file server shares under /mnt, and create symlinks in my 
home directory that point into the mounted file system.


I use CVS for project working directories.  To migrate to a new home 
directory, I check in the projects in the old home and check out the 
project in the new home.


I use Firefox and its sync feature.  To migrate to a new home, I start 
Firefox, log in, wait for my settings to sync, and then check all of the 
settings by hand.


I use Thunderbird.  To migrate to a new home, I create a tarball of my 
Thunderbird profile directory on the old machine, expand the tarball on 
the new machine, and configure Thunderbird to use that profile.


I do not attempt to migrate any of the various home directory 
configuration directories; I let the installer and/or package manager 
create them, and let the desktop, apps, etc., manage them.


David

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Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2024-04-22 08:00 +0200
  Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-04-22 09:20 +0200
  Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-04-22 12:30 +0200
  Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-04-22 23:00 +0200
  Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-04-23 02:00 +0200
    Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2024-04-23 06:50 +0200
      Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-04-23 18:10 +0200
        Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-04-23 22:40 +0200
          Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-04-23 23:50 +0200
      Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-04-23 22:30 +0200
    SOLVED: Re: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2024-04-24 07:10 +0200
      Re: SOLVED: Re: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade eben@gmx.us - 2024-04-24 07:20 +0200
  Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-04-28 16:00 +0200

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