Hello all!

I'm having a problem here: I reinstalled Debian woody. I replaced the nv driver with NVidia's proprietary driver. I installled enemy territory from the downloaded .run file. I upgraded my X-server, Gnome. I typed

et

at a non-root prompt, and it worked great! I love that game under windows, and I love it more under linux!

However, I fiddled with a few things (replaced libesd-alsa0 with libesd0) to get my gnome-sounds working properly, and now Enemy Territory will not even finish loading! It gets through all of the graphic initialization and openGL stuff, then displays:

___________________________________
Sound initialization

and hangs until i ctrl-c it.

I thought, maybe somehow it autoconfigures and it won't work with my new sound server settings, right? so i remove the game directory and reinstall enemy-territory. Same effect. Screen resizes, black box, and hangs at sound initialization.

The documentation that the linux version comes with is all for windows, and I've not found my problem reproduced anywhere on the internet. If anyone can help me, I really just want my game back! Don't make me play it under windows, please.....

opopanax_linux

Search for a .et dir/file(s) in your home directory (they are hidden).
If you find them - just KILL them (read delete).

most apps save their settings in your homedir. look under the root homedir - being general settings they might be there.

This does what You tried, but in a not so brutal manner.

Thank you for your input! However, after deleting .etwolf from / and /home/(user), I still get the same problem. I'm totally at a loss here.

do a
this will show the files that contain et in their names
see if anything from that list seems to be a conf file for et

better yet would be a locate etwolf if it narrows down the results...

If you find such files (configs) erase them too.

More than this I can't help you since I didn't played that game...

so the purpose would be to make et rewrite all of the config files based on what I have on my system now, not what I had on my system when i installed?

that's right

ok. I think i've isolated a symptom of the problem. just for kicks, i ran sndconfig, which is redhat's autosoundcard configurator. it uses, i guess, isapnp to locate the card. ok, so great, it located the card properly, loads the proper module, and attempts to play a sound. it hangs trying to play the sound, in the same manner as et hangs while trying to initialize sound. so some apps that are independent of the gui are not properly communicating with the sound server? i'm using ESD/esound.
What i'm going to attempt to do is remove every GoshDarn sound server and sound lib that I have installed on my machine and start from scratch, adding things that (I think) I need until it works, or I've totally screwed up my machine, whichever comes first. (My bets are on the latter.) Anyhow, the kernel modules I have included at boot are soundbase, sound (which is the OSS kernel module,) and es1371, which is the driver module for my ensoniq sound card.

the list of sound-type packages I have installed are as follows:

libesd0
libesd0-dev
vlc-esd
lwresd
gstreamer-esd
libsndfile-dev
libsndfile0
libsndfile1
snd
sndconfig
sndfile-programs
libsndfile-dev
lxmusserv
gstreamer-oss
libsdl1.2debian-oss
audiooss
python-oss
oss-preserve
gnome-audio (somewhat unrelated, but ya never know!)
gstreamer-audiofile
kdebase-audiolibs
libaudiofile0

and probably some more that I've missed.

Any help i can get would be greatly appreciated....also, is there a package or program out there that will properly install sound based on which daemon/server I choose to use?

Thanks again, folks!

Steve

opopanax_linux on ymessenger

try first to pull out of the kern the es1371 module.

Why not use alsa?

I have the same sndcard and it works fine (well, ok, after a lot of work, untill I found a tutorial on alsa's home page). It can emulate oss!!!

Funny you should say that. I removed OSS and installed alsa last night, and now et works jest fine, thank you! I found a good article, a mini alsa howto for debian on linuxorbit.com (.org?) Anyhow, it works now, but I've lost all my sounds in Gnome again. I've got libesd-alsa0 installed, which was the problem last time, so, i'm not sure what the heck I'm doing wrong. I'll figure it out though.

any ideas on this new problem?

Thanks for all of your input!