Game sound issues

bizzarem1ke · 08-29-2005, 11:48 AM

Well i installed, Enemy Terroritory and it runs great, alot better then windows. but, im having a sound problem, ive got music, and movie sound on my desktop, but in game, i cant hear anything. and im very confused about the whole situtation. so if anyone else has fixed this problem please let me know how to fix it.

thank you

cuiq · 08-29-2005, 11:51 AM

Did you use Wine Or Cedega to install the game?

peace V

bizzarem1ke · 08-29-2005, 11:55 AM

no sir, it has a linux file of the game for you.

et-linux-2.60.x86.run

but no sound.

cuiq · 08-29-2005, 12:03 PM

Ok then, are you using the Alsa sound drivers for your sound card?

peace V

bizzarem1ke · 08-29-2005, 12:11 PM

um, im using the ones that are default, how do i check these.

only second day on linux

bizzarem1ke · 08-29-2005, 12:15 PM

------- sound initialization -------
/dev/dsp: Input/output error
Could not mmap /dev/dsp
-----------------------------------

is what i get in console.

cuiq · 08-29-2005, 12:36 PM

Ok, I found that Fedora Core 4 has the alsa package installed by default. So on the console type "alsamixer" w/o quotes, this should allow you to check your alsa settings, maybe something is muted or needs to be turned up.

peace V

bizzarem1ke · 08-29-2005, 06:22 PM

nope, everything was turned on

hmm. ill give you the whole console msg.

------- sound initialization -------
/dev/dsp: Input/output error
Could not mmap /dev/dsp
------------------------------------
Sound memory manager started
Sys_LoadDll(/home/Constantine/.etwolf/etmain/ui.mp.i386.so)...
Sys_LoadDll(/home/Constantine/.etwolf/etmain/ui.mp.i386.so) failed:
"/home/Constantine/.etwolf/etmain/ui.mp.i386.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
Sys_LoadDll(/usr/local/games/enemy-territory/etmain/ui.mp.i386.so)... ok
Sys_LoadDll(ui) found **vmMain** at 0xee08bf40
Sys_LoadDll(ui) succeeded!

it seems. that it doesnt see my sound file, because well i cant run any i386 on fedora core 64 bit.

if there is a reach around on this let me know.

cuiq · 08-29-2005, 07:30 PM

Have you installed the nforce 4 drivers from nvidias website? If not, here is the link;

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

The linux 64 bit drivers are at the bottom.

peace V

bizzarem1ke · 08-29-2005, 10:35 PM

yeah, i have my nvidia drivers installed

randyding · 08-30-2005, 12:34 AM

This is a common problem, you have to do some of the steps described here before running the game.
http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/OSS-Emulation.html
If this doesn't get you going let us know, there's some other things to try.

Edit: Ok, I've added my startup script below that shows how to start glquake,
another one of ID games that has the same issue.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

cd /usr/local/games/quake/QUAKE

# http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/OSS-Emulation.html
if ! grep "glquake" /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss >/dev/null; then
    if [ "`whoami`" != "root" ]; then
        echo "You have to be root to setup the alsa's oss emulation first."
        exit 1
    fi
    echo "glquake 0 0 direct" >/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
    echo "glquake 0 0 disable" >/proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
    echo "alsa's oss emulation setup, re-run as normal user."
    exit 0
fi
if [ "`whoami`" = "root" ]; then
    echo "Must run as normal user."
    exit 1
fi

if pgrep artsd >/dev/null || pgrep esd >/dev/null; then
    killall artsd >/dev/null 2>&1
    killall esd >/dev/null 2>&1
    sleep 1
fi

mygamma="1.5"

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    xgamma -gamma "$mygamma"
    ./glquake
    xgamma -gamma 1
elif [ -d "$1" ]; then
    xgamma -gamma "$mygamma"
    ./glquake -game "$1"
    xgamma -gamma 1
fi

bizzarem1ke · 08-30-2005, 04:31 PM

nope didnt work

just my in game sounds,

i have sound in movies, and mp3s, and when i error something i have those sounds to. so im really confused about this problem.

randyding · 08-30-2005, 10:30 PM

Post the actual startup script that you are running.

bizzarem1ke · 08-31-2005, 08:51 PM

what do you mean by script my sound drivers?

randyding · 08-31-2005, 11:12 PM

In my case with glquake (don't have ET installed anymore) I can start the game with

Code:

cd /usr/local/games/quake/QUAKE
./glquake -game rogue

But this won't work, the sound will not play in the game and the console shows the same error message you described.
However I can run several commands to properly setup the OSS emulation in ALSA, then it works. I placed all those commands in the script I posted earlier and that is the script I run to start my game.
That script won't work for you as I posted it because it its customized for glquake, not ET. So I wanted to take a look at your script, assuming you took mine and edited it for working with your ET game.