Heroes of Might & Magic 3 (Loki)

tchernobog · 09-25-2003, 02:44 PM

Hi!
I have just found a copy of Heroes Of Might And Magic 3 for Linux.

I've Mandrake 9.1, and whenever I start the game it says that my /dev/dsp is busy. I tried to stop artsd (with a kill based on the listing of ps -A), but it wasn't that to keep my resource busy.

I've to start esd (the daemon) in order to get this thing working. Please tell me a good way to:
a) understand what's keeping my dsp busy
b) kill it brutally
c) start the game

Byez.

teval · 09-26-2003, 07:57 PM

To kill the process that uses /dev/dsp automatically, just do:

fuser -k /dev/dsp

fuser --help
Will give you more info on it, also check out the man/info pages. It can also list what's using the file, and it does a lotmore.
So.. you could just make a shell script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

fuser -k /dev/dsp
<Inser whatever you use to start the program with it's full path, use 'which "program name" ' to fine out the path to it>

Make a file of that, (remember not to include the <>), chmod that +x and save it in /usr/bin
Then run the file. Should work just fine

Happy gaming!

tchernobog · 09-27-2003, 05:26 AM

Thank you very much!!! You saved my day...

It's just:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

su - root "-c fuser -k /dev/dsp;esdmon &"
heroes3

Uh, I also tried with "/etc/rc5.d/S17sound stop" and "S18alsa stop". It didn't worked the first time, but the second it did (?!?!?). Boh. Your way is much more clean, anyway...

Byez!