5.1 Surround with ALSA and OpenAL. [ALSA VoIP added]

floam · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:06 pm Post subject:

Moled: others are getting stuff like that in Unreal Engine games with ALSA 1.0. It's an OpenAL issue if I recall, you may want to post something to the OpenAL mailing list.

Information here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=813198&highlight=#813198
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Moled · l33t Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 635

no, I swapped it back and it wasn't ok
i've not played the game in quite a while tho

I don't have access to my 5.1 speakers atm, so can't really test it

where did you get the info of the contents of the .openalrc from?

i'm interested in this now, see what it can do

floam · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:04 am Post subject:

Moled: Got openalrc info off google and people on irc. Also, ut2003 seems to be working with latest openal from cvs and 2.6.2-rc1-mm1
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iDeJ · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:35 pm Post subject:

hi

i think i'm to stupid to emerge openal-cvs-3

after reading some portage relatet how-to's
i've copied the ebuild into /usr/portage/openal-cvs-3 and if i type
emerge openal-cvs-3 i get

root@matrix idej # emerge openal-cvs-3
Calculating dependencies
!!! Problem in openal-cvs-3/openal-cvs-3 dependencies.
!!! "Specific key requires an operator (openal-cvs-3/openal-cvs-3) (try adding an '=')"
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floam · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject:

iDeJ · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject:

thx for helpe, openal emerged just fine (after i have unmerged my old openal installation)
but the only difference is that i have no sound in ut2k3-demo

also if i mute Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack i get no sound at all

just a hint, an
ln -s /opt/ut2003-demo/System/openal.so /usr/lib/libopenal.so will not work, cuz libopenal.so itself is a symlink to /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0.0.6 (in my case)

but i've still a problem, in ut i get only sound out of the 2 boxes behind me

the other ones are quiet

and if i disable the Audigy Analog/Digital Audio Jack i have no sound (nowhere in my system)

i've an Audigy2 Card and the build-in Alsa Driver in my 2.6 Kernel
what could be wrong?
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floam · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:31 pm Post subject:

iDeJ · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject:

hi,

no soory, just mixed it up in this thread

after reemergin openal "libopenal.so" is a symlink to "libopenal.so."

floam · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject:

Do you have your mixer settings set properly, turned up? (Specifically Wave and PCM.)
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iDeJ · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:04 am Post subject:

i think, yes
but i don't know what all this EMU10k1 PCM/EMU10k! PCM Send/EMU10K1 PCM Send Routing means, so it could be that there is one mistake

a snapshot of my mixer settings

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floam · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject:

IDeJ: Try muting the "Audigy Analo... Output Jack" in your second mixer window. Also unrelated you have Tone muted, if you unmute that the Bass/Treble sliders you have next to it will work.
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iDeJ · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:37 am Post subject:

if i do so i have no sound at all

XMMS(Alsa Plugin)/KDE/UT2k3, nowhere, even with aplay

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floam · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject:

IDeJ: Are you attempting to get your sound via digital out or something?
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iDeJ · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject:

nope, normal Ananlog connection

could it be that i have to use other settings with an Auduigy2?
or that i have mutet something wrong?

i mean, all 6 boxes are working just fine, only with the 4.0 settings in ut and ArmyOps i getting problems
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floam · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject:

So if you mute the digital/analog toggle (which tells it to do analog) , you can get normal sounds outside of ut2003?
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iDeJ · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:32 pm Post subject:

if i haven't got it mutet and i haven't got a .openalrc in my home dir, then i have normal sound, if i have it mutet i have no sound at all
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Angrybob · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 575

what do i stick in my .openalrc file if I want to use my 7.1 analog speakers, or is that not supported...?

floam · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:23 am Post subject:

Check to see if surround71 is available.

floam · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:00 am Post subject:

I've updated the ebuild to apply Mercury's ALSA capture patch, it should allow voice to work with alsa in ut2004. Be sure to read the entire page noted in the postinst, and note the patch is very new and probably wont work for you.
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eNTi · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject:

i have a sblive! and i tried the openal thingy, but i'm stuck. i've made a link from /usr/lib/libopenal.so to <UTDIR>/System/openal.so and my sound was gone. completely. is there a way to check, if one's setup is working?
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Moled · l33t Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 635

shouldn't the link be the other way around?

eNTi · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject:

i did ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so <utdir>/System/openal.so. is this correct? it should be.
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floam · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:24 pm Post subject:

Not sure what your problem is. Do you have alsa in your USE, setup the .openalrc? In other news, wolf31o2 is replacing the openal ebuild in portage with mine (including voip stuff), but making it a snapshot and hardmasking it, so soon it'll be even easier for people to get this stuff working (hopefully)
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Moled · l33t Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 635

have you read this?: http://icculus.org/~warp/ut2004/

floam · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:28 am Post subject:

I'm about to update the ebuild again. Warp (Mercury) has released a new patch, this one fixes all the choppiness issues with voip (finally, people can hear me perfectly with ALSA!) and gets rid of the slow downs while holding F (VoiceTalk). Also going to include fixes that wolf31o2 made to the ebuild (Snapshot version in portage and hardmasked now)
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