Enemy Territory does not play sound in ubuntu linux
 

After installing Enemy Territory in ubuntu linux 4.10 I was unable to get sound. The solution to this problem for me was to open the root terminal and enter:

echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

Then I could open a normal terminal and enter:

et

This solved my sound problem. I have to enter the echo command each time I reboot to play the game and have sound. If you have a better way to get sound in Enemy Territory, please add to this thread.

Do you have the sound daemon active?
if so, try without it

do you have access to the sound devices in rest?
if not, (I doubt it) add your user to the audio group


what are the permisions under which the game runs?

The poster's fix for Ubuntu works, at least for me (default Ubuntu "Hoary Hedgehog" release).

yeh it worked for me too.

I just put it in my rc.local and all is sweet.

Check this out too: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-17490.html

In summary...
Open up ~/.etwolf/etmain/profiles/%profilename%/etconfig.cfg and change
to
It doesn't work for me (mine is an AC97 card) but like the site says, it may work with others.

I used to do the killall -9 esd each time before starting ET. My 6 year old kept calling me downstairs to do it for him. No need to do it any longer as I just did

sudo gedit /etc/esound/esd.conf

edit so it looks like so

[esd]
auto_spawn=1
spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -d default
spawn_wait_ms=100
# default options are used in spawned and non-spawned mode
default_options=

This is taken from this thread and no I didn't do any of the other things like alsa.conf or whatever.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26567

I have a similar problem with ET in Fedora core 3 no sound in the game, I also have UT2004 and that sound works just fine, I have no idea what is wrong