Hello!
I am a complete Linux Newb...so please be patient with me.
I am using PCLinuxOS, and have sound in the KDE environment..(which actually sounds quite robust!)

After much work and a lot of help, I was able to download and install Wolfenstein:enemy territory...Which works except for the sound!
I was told by a friend to "disable ArTs in the KDE control panel", but I have no such option. All I have is an option to "Auto Suspend KDE exclusive sound control if idle for XX seconds."
I set this to 1 seconds, 0 seconds, and still I have no sound in ET.
I am using an EPoX 8rda3iPro mobo, with onboard sound. (RealtekALC655)
I was quite shocked to see that ET actually loaded up and gave me video, so I think the video (the hard part?!) is configured correctly.
I have tried everything I can think of, and fumble through in KDE, but to no avail.
Please Help!
ANd thanks!

check this out...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=424631

perhaps it helps.

This sounds promising:

"I fixed this with some help from the users in #linux at IRCnet.

All I needed was to load the module snd_pcm_oss to get OSS emulation for ALSA.

I thought I'd already tried it with asla-oss but clearly not."


.....but I don't understand what it means!

Could you walk me thru it?

i dont know PCLinuxOS package management but make sure you have alsa installed and alsa-oss support then simply run following:

modprobe snd_pcm_oss

I am not sure I understand how to make sure I have alsa installed, but my current sound driver is called intel8x0(ALSA).
How do I "run" modprobe snd_pcm_oss ? I typed it into a terminal but it is an unrecognized command...must I type it into a config file?
(Sorry for my ignorance...I am very new to Linux)

Well I switched to root, and did:

modprobe snd_pcm_oss

And then loaded the game...still no sound. Am I doing something wrong or should I be looking elsewhere?

run it from a terminal (try typing "et" in konsole, xterm, rxvt, or some similar terminal) - that will produce a list of output in the terminal window, and hopefully also will include an error message describing what the problem is.

iirc, this is a common problem I've seen discussed before, make sure to run a few searches here, at www.google.com/linux, etc.

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

in a terminal put that in as root, then sound will work for the game during that x session, if you restart x you will have to put it in again. Change bname ofgame.x86 to what efer the actual binay is for enemy territory, this works for me. It sometimes doesnt work the first time so come out of the game and do it again and it should work.

Beautiful....thank you all for your help...
I don't quite understand why it works, but it works great! I wrote a script (my first one) for this issue:

#!/bin/bash
su
echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
et




Thanks again for your replies and time!

i think everybody has this problem, you would have thought they would have patched the issue by now considering the popularity of the game and how often this problem occurs

Anyone having sound problems in Wolfenstein Enemy territory or other games can try the suggestions here. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnemyTerritory I am running Debian Etch, not Ubuntu, but the suggestions work for most distros. If not, change the commands a little bit to fit your distro. Let me know if this helps.