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kurt_ram

Oct 16 2007, 02:52 AM

I have downloaded Americas Army Operations game for Linux and installed it on my PC. Everything works fine but I do not hear any sound. I'm able to play mp3s using Amarok and I can hear the KDE startup and exit sounds. So, system sound is working fine. When I start Americas Army, I get the following error:

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open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such file or directory

I'm trying to debug this issue. After googling for a while, I got to this page: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Hardware#Sound_Cards.

In this page it is given that

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To find out which program is currently using the sound card (which prevents other programs from using it, unless your card supports hardware mixing)

/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp

When I did this, I get

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Cannot stat /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

This doesn't sound right. Any comments?

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aRTee

Oct 16 2007, 11:13 AM

I think /dev/dsp is usually a link to /dev/snd/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp and it may be that which throws off fuser.
That or you may have to create said links - which would surprise me for Mandriva, never seen that...

You could also try to start aa like this:
soundwrapper aa
might help, not sure...

adamw

Oct 16 2007, 06:05 PM

lsmod | grep oss

Artificial Intelligence

Oct 16 2007, 06:58 PM

As far as I know AA is not linux supported anymore. I don't know how many which actually running the old version, which can be a problem if you want to play against others.

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