No Sound in UT2004

I just installed UT2004 on my fresh install of Debian Linux. Everything went smooth however when I start the game, I get no audio at all. During the intro where the guy smashes the Nvidia logo to basic game play - it's completely mute. When I exit the game back to Gnome, I have full audio and video with no problems. I went into the game "audio" and everything looked fine I guess.

Can anyone help me get audio on UT2004?

Hi.

Try doing 'killall -9 esd' and 'killall -9 artsd' before you start UT.

Dave

Originally Posted by ilikejam Hi. Try doing 'killall -9 esd' and 'killall -9 artsd' before you start UT. Dave

carlos@striker:~$ killall -9 esd
esd: no process killed
carlos@striker:~$ killall -9 artsd
artsd: no process killed

Still no sound

Are you using OSS, or ALSA?

Originally Posted by ilikejam Are you using OSS, or ALSA?

I really don't know how to determine which I am using. How can I tell? When I go to my volume control, I can see it says "ALSA MIXER"

Screenshot

Looks like you're using ALSA.

Do you get any errors when you run 'ut2004' from a command line?

Originally Posted by ilikejam Looks like you're using ALSA. Do you get any errors when you run 'ut2004' from a command line?

No, I get no errors from command line runnung the command "ut2004" and sound works great throughout the OS, just the game is dead silent.

Someone had me run this command from www.linux-gamers.net.

carlos@striker:~$ lsof|grep snd
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /dev/.static/dev
      Output information may be incomplete.
mixer_app 5323      carlos   42u      CHR      116,0               8371 /dev/snd/controlC0
carlos@striker:~$ lsof|grep dsp
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /dev/.static/dev
      Output information may be incomplete.

Anyone know what this means and if this is why my sound is only muted in the game?

lsof shows who/what is using a file at that moment in time. That command looks for processes which are using the sound devices. From the output of the command, you can see that nothing is using your sound (output) devices.

Try doing what's listed in this post:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...67#post2007167

Also, I know it's stupid, but are you sure the volume controls are up in the game?

I am pretty sure they are. The ingame music is mid level and so is the in-game sound. There is one point of interest I do have however it's while in the game and don't know if I can screenshot while in the game menu.

OK - When I opened "terminal" and ran the command "ut2004", it loaded the game as normal and then I exited the game to see what errors may appear in the terminal window.

carlos@striker:~$ ut2004
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such file or directory
Xlib:  extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0".

What does this mean?

Ah.

It looks like you don't have OSS emulation enabled. That's fine.
Crack open a text editor, and put the following into ~/.openalrc

(define devices '(alsa))
(define speaker-num 2)
(define alsa-out-device "hw:0,0")
(define alsa-in-device "hw:0,0")

That should force openal (the audio subsystem UT uses) to use ALSA instead of OSS.

Dave

If that works - I love you! Let me try this via SSH or when I get home from work.

ilikejam

I have been told by many people before I confure that text file, I can just update my UT2004 with the latest patch 3355 and that will fix my problem. Is there a guide to installing the latest patch?

I've not seen any updates to the sound system for UT in their patches, but I could be wrong. That patch fixes some crashes in game, so you should probably install it anyway.

Dave