After a little bit of googling I found out that I have to use echo "quake3.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss as root to get quake3 sound working. Is there any way to put this into the standard startup scripts as I guess many people will need this - as it's a general ALSA&mmap() problem. The URL submitted contains details.
the provided URL says it's an OSS bug ... quake3 works fine on my system without such trickery on my part
perhaps we can make a games related FAQ and add this to it ...
A bug of the ALSA OSS plugin then. Do you use ALSA (I use 1.0.0)?
of course i use alsa, it would be pretty stupid of me to say alsa works fine when i dont use it :P ive been using the alsa drivers in 2.6.x since the late 2.5.x series and currently i have media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.1 and media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.1 although i've been playing q3/et since alsa-{lib,utils} were in the 0.9.x stages
Same on mine - It's gentoo-dev-sources. mmap() fails. So there has to be at least one little problem ;o) Perhaps reassigning to sound?
If I want sound working on Quake3, RTC Wolfenstein and other similar games, I must deactivate the esound daemon via "esdctl standby". When I finish playing, to get the daemond running again I do "esdctl resume".
It seems anyway that evolution tries to start ESD... Sucks 'cos normally I don't use it (and most of the time it cores anyway). But the first time I tried the thing I stated in #1 it worked, now quake3 crashes without any hint after the game is started, sound works but hangs than. (When I would begin to play)
Quake3 breaks on any Tier or MP level. The demo level is fine. Strange thing. Logging states DGA Mouse - Disabling DGA DirectVideo. But as my problem has (probably) nothing to do I'll close this as invalid for now |: (However I'm still unable to play it)
(io)Quake3 works without such a trick, but I need it for Quake3-WoP. Thanks for it.
