Quake 3 freezes with alsa-oss emulation

magoot · 02-07-2005, 07:04 PM

Hello, this will be my first post here

I just got kernel 2.6.10 running with alsa-1.0.8, and it works great, except for one thing, sound in Quake 3.
I installed the alsa-oss package to get oss-emulation(?) for quake, the sound did still not work so after a lot of searching i found that this would be the fix

Code:

echo "quake3.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

Well i got sound, but in the same moment the fight starts, the game freezes and i have to kill it manually.
Anyone familiar with this?

XMMS works fine with both alsa and oss, the modules "snd_seq_oss", "snd_pcm_oss", "snd_mixer_oss" and so on are loaded...

Could use some help

Ps. Excuse my bad english.

Tormented · 02-08-2005, 09:27 AM

What sound card are you using?

If you're using a via soundcard with the snd-via82xx module,
you can fix the freezing by adding:

options snd-via82xx dxs_support=4

to your /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting.

magoot · 02-08-2005, 10:21 AM

Hey thanks dude! That solved my problem

Quake 3 runs perfect now.
Another question (maybe a little off-topic) but how do i get these modules to load at startup?
They seeme to be needed to create /dev/dsp and so on

Code:

snd-pcm-oss
snd-seq-oss
snd-mixer-oss

Btw yes, i am using a VIA integrated soundcard that uses the module snd_via82x

Anyway thank you for the help.
// MagooT

Tormented · 02-08-2005, 01:19 PM

My modprobe.conf has these lines at the beginning of it:

Code:

remove snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-via82xx && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx

They should do what you want, and you have to put them before the options line I posted above.

magoot · 02-08-2005, 01:22 PM

Thanks a lot.

magoot · 04-14-2005, 06:38 PM

Sorry for bringing up this old thread, but i have recently bought a new motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2), and the on-board soundcard uses the snd-intel8x0 module. I have exactly the same problem again as in my last posts in this thread, quake 3 arena freezes when i start a map.

The line "options snd-via82xx dxs_support=4" fixed my problem with the old motherboard, but it doesn't seem to work with this one (as it uses a different driver i assume) although i changed the line to "options snd-intel8x0 dxs_support=4".

Can the problem be solved with a similar line in modprobe.conf with this card?

velcrodave · 05-01-2005, 08:28 PM

I am using the alsa intel8x0 module for my toshiba laptop and the sound works well (in xmms, etc) and I can start quake 3 but it crashes when starting a map. As far as I can tell, there are no "options" for this module. Yes, I know q3 is getting old but I still want to play it! Magoot and I can't be the only ones out there with this problem

Thanks,

Dave

exvor · 05-11-2005, 02:08 PM

I have the via sound card listed in this post
running slackware
there are no options in my modprobe.conf when i added the line above after getting sound to work by created a symlink to dev/dsp0 to /dev/dsp
the above line fixed nothing just caused sound to stop working in quake3 again.

very fustrated with this it shouldent be this hard

-mX- · 07-12-2005, 09:21 PM

Hi, sorry for posting the same thing in another thread but i found this one just now and it better describes what's wrong with my Q3.
I'm using Mandriva 2005 LE with updated kernel and everything else up-to-date as well.
I'm using Realtek AC97 on-board sound card that comes with nForce2.
Any full-proof fix found yet?

smOk3 · 10-13-2007, 04:29 AM

I have read the form and multiple other forms and still have not found a solution. I know that quake 3 doesn't like alsa, but I also know that there is a fix.

I did this in the console
echo "quake3.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

and was surprised when I heard sound. I ran the server search and the game started but when it got to where it was going to make a sound it just froze. So I searched google and found this form. I then added
options snd-via82xx dxs_support=4

to modprobe.conf. It started and played... the first time. Maps changed and when it loaded it froze just like it did before I added options snd-via82xx dxs_support=4.

I then tried this
options snd-via82xx dxs_support=4

it worked but the sound was crackling and could not hear much.
I would appreciate any help.
thanks

smOk3 · 10-13-2007, 04:31 AM

I forgot to post my setup

slackware 12
snd_via82xx
quake 3 1.32

smOk3 · 10-13-2007, 04:34 AM

There is a typo in the first post:
"I then tried this aoss quake3

it worked but the sound was crackling and could not hear much.
I would appreciate any help.
thanks"

smOk3 · 10-13-2007, 10:32 PM

For any one that hasn't resolved the alsa issue and quake 3 with Slackware, I would like to provide a solution as to how I got it working flawlessly.

First I removed all sound modules using this script:
awk '/^snd/||/^sound/&&($3==0){system("rmmod " $1)}' /proc/modules /proc/modules /proc/modules

I then downloaded the oss package and installed it.

Worked instantly.

Alien_Hominid · 10-14-2007, 08:15 AM

In theory, Alsa should emulate old Oss api and everything should work without a glitch.

exvor · 10-15-2007, 05:25 PM

Wow necro a thread this 05 to 07 in one posting :P

Alsa does not emulate oss flawlessly there are some issues. try using or linking /dev/dsp to /dev/adsp and sometimes that works.