The famous Quake3 sound crash

Nimo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 111

I'm trying to get Quake3 to work with sound.

Without doing anything it will work, but with no sound.

If I do:

petrasl · n00b Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Swiss

Same problem for me, anyway I got quake3 working with winex3 some time ago...

Nimo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 111

Hmm...
Could an old SoundBlaster16 PCI solve my problem?
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//Nimo

Mit · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:30 pm Post subject:

Nimo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 111

I finally got it working!

The only thing I did was to write this in the console inside quake3 (press ~ to get the console to appear):

kortec · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 68

I was having the same problem (exactly) and even use the same driver, but the fix doesn't touch it for me -- anyone have other ideas?

russianpirate · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:36 am Post subject:

do u use alsa? if yes, emerge "alsa-oss" if u didnt already.. if u have it.. check the device permissions /dev/dsp and try running as root.. see if it works

Nimo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 111

Try:

kortec · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 68

Well, I tried them all, but no joy so far. maybe there's a particular channel that i'd have to unmute on ALSA?

Nimo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 111

Yes, try:

jrz · Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:15 am Post subject:

adding this line to ~/.q3a/baseq3/autoexec.cfg (create it if it doesn't exist)

kortec · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 68

called for alsa channels are unmuted (as i suspected, but just wanted to make sure), but that bit of code still doesn't help me.. i'm getting this error from the initialization printout though:

hoputa · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

Same problem here.

Running amd64, VIA integrated soundcard using snd-via82xx

I get sound to work with the cat > /proc ... line. However it only works in the menu. When I start fighting the game freezes.
Quake3 sound initialization outputs this:

------- sound initialization -------
------------------------------------
----- Sound Info -----
sound system is muted
1 stereo
32768 samples
16 samplebits
1 submission_chunk
48000 speed
0x5b2e0000 dma buffer
No background file.
----------------------
Sound memory manager started
Loading vm file vm/ui.qvm.
VM file ui compiled to 594408 bytes of code
ui loaded in 1963008 bytes on the hunk
35 arenas parsed
32 bots parsed

Which seems normal to me.

All the set and seta lines didn't help me either.
I've even tried something else I found googling around. It said to add this option to your modules.conf

options snd-via82xx dxs_support=4

Didn't help either. Any other ideas?

darkhills · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 8

Did anyone solve this? I have the *exactly* the same problem...

DH

Nimo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 111

What have you set snddevice to?
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//Nimo

darkhills · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 8

dsp and adsp. I've tried numerous other fixes mentioned in these forums and elsewhere, and no luck.

QIII runs fine, no sound. UT runs fine, no video

In my messing around last night, I managed to thoroughly
bork my nvidia driver install (more on that tonite perhaps, it's a whole nother weird one). Grr :roll:

I was thinking of trying a 32bit install, but given what I've seen here and elsewhere it doesn't
look like 64bit Gentoo is the culprit, alas.

Sigh.

Off to work....

DH

kortec · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 68

yeah, same for me. i tried all the above commands from within quake3 (using the ~-term) to no avail. i'm using ALSA, not compiled as modules, and set it up pretty closely following the Gentoo ALSA guide (http://gentoo.org/doc/en) if that helps.

kortec · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 68

according to ID:

jrz · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject:

just wondering why the sound devices belong to root group and not audio.

darkhills · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 8

Myself, I have an Epox board with the onboard RTL850. Everything works fine except in hardware accelerated games

Tonite after work I may put in my SBLIVE and disable the onboard sound just to see what happens. Won't help me with
the UT video tho

In WinXPbeta and Win98 on the same box I have such horrible driver issues I don't even want to talk about it...

This is starting to get to me, I have this new, wonderfully fast box and I can't play any games on it lol :roll:

DH

kortec · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 68

I looked around in the docs what came with those drivers.. as it turns out, there is a third PCI channel that isn't being activated by the standard kernel drivers for the via82cxxx chipset, hence the inability to mmap the device.. now if i only knew how to fix it! I'm not entirely convinced that the drivers haven't been merged in to the kernel (the last update was in 2001), and i'm also not positive that i actually have a chipset that applies to this. I found, on the ALSA site, documentation on how to compile in my own drivers to the kernel, so i'll see where that leads me later tonight. Anyone else come up with anything new?

darkhills · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 8

no, not yet

I'm still trying to get my broken nvidia drivers to work again (ran into the circular dependency problem menitoned elsewhere on the forums)

I have it mostly licked except I can't get my original keymap back for some reason. Results vary from one startx to another, some having every keypress being interpreted as "change resolution" (google shows it's an old config problem, but danged if I can find a fix) then sometimes it works but doesn't map right. rc.conf is the same as it was before the xorg 6.8.2 upgrade.

I'm running a emerge deep world right now kind of as a last resort to try to fix a lot of odd problems I ran into. I got my nvidia drivers back - the /usr/lib64 change and lots of reemerge - and glx etc loads ok, but when I try to run any opengl app I get a error message about missing libGL.so.6 - and that's as far as I got, after unmerges/reemerges.

an interesting note - after unmerging xorg/nvidia my conflict between emul-linux and xorg-x11 was fixed - with freetype being listed as the first dependency for xorg-x11. Not sure what that means...

If I can't get this sorted out tonite I'm going to chroot a 32bit install on some spare partition space and see if that has the same problems. Results by the end of he week lol

I need a beer

DH

jrz · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:57 am Post subject:

I definitely had this problem and what fixed it was adding this line to ~/.q3a/baseq3/autoexec.cfg

kortec · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 68

not giving me anything.. the guy whom i found out about the other PCI channel from sugguested i just save myself the pain and buy another card.. not exactly what i was looking for, to say the least. Haven't gotten to thrashi... er.. installing the other drivers I found in to the kernel; will update if anything happens. really just hoping this post is enough more to grab the attention of some Linux God On High. Help?

pingufunkybeat · l33t Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 610

Well, with /dev/adsp, I don't get any sound at all.

I guess I'm stuck with mods... :/