sjaglin Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Hi there, I started to migrate my games (for which I needed windows until recently) to linux. I must admit it is quite a succes. So far I play cold war, doom3 and quake 4. The graphic part of the games work great only limited by my Gfx card (fx 5700 128Mb). The result is great ... BUT On coldwar the sound is great, no problem there. On Quake 4 the sounf is weird, metallic voices and obvious problems (as in it sound not normal), whereas for doom 3 there is no sound at all! I had a good look at the different forums for each game and nothing too specific on my problem. I run mandriva powerpack dvd 2006 and have all my rpms up to date. The message for doom 3 is as follow: ------------------------------------ ----------- OSS Sound Initialization ----------- opened sound device '/dev/dsp' /dev/dsp - bit rate: 16, channels: 2, frequency: 44100 WARNING: mmap 57344 bytes on device /dev/dsp failed: Input/output error close sound device WARNING: sound subsystem disabled I had a look at my alsamixer and all looks ok except the nob for surround which is on 0 and un-movable. I wonder if anyone had an idea on where else to look into my config to find the bug, probably a problem alsa/oss? Cheers, Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Install aoss (urpmi aoss) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted November 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 sorry : [root@linuxbox stephane]# urpmi aoss The package(s) are already installed [root@linuxbox stephane]# anything else i can try please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 I got odd sound problems with doom3-demo. I found launching it with: doom3-demo +set s_driver oss sorted them out. Not sure if this will help as your error message suggests it was already trying to use OSS but I guess it may be worth a try? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted November 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 (edited) Thanks, I tried that as well and same result I m afraid! But! At last it is working fine thanks to the 1.3 patch! All works fine, including nice tweakes which really improve my fps! Stef Edited December 1, 2005 by sjaglin@yahoo.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted December 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 All solved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMorden Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 All solved! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What did you do to solve your problems? Others may be having the same difficulties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted January 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Well, to solve the sound problem AND improve the FPS in both Doom3 and Quake4 under Linux, you have to find the .cfg file in your home/yourname directory and tweak a few things (like set the sound driver to oss and use the cahe for gfx rendering...etc). It is all explained at : http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsect...hp?articleid=54 AND http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4 Hope it helps!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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