Castle Wolfenstein and No Audio

[Wolfgang Gill]

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:22:53 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 07:59 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Most likely esd (gnome sound server) is blocking access to /dev/dsp.
> > * Logout
> > * Login to a failsafe terminal (will just open a xterm)
> > * Fire-up twm/mwm (any other basic WM)
> > * As root: /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0 (Load the sound drivers).
> > * Try running RtCW again.
> > 
> > Gilboa
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 18:57 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:35 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > > Desktop Environment (AKA KDE, GNOME, etc)
> > > > 
> > > > Gilboa
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 07:25 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: 
> > > > > DE?  
> > > > > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:28 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > > > > Under what DE do you run the game?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Gilboa
> > > Gnome
> > > 
> > > Sean
> > > 
> > 
> I think it has more to do with the alsa driver and the capabilites of
> the on-board audio.
> 
> If I run wolfsp(single player) I can get audio with a few tweaks to the
> oss-emulation, namely:
> 
>  echo "wolfsp.x86 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
>  echo "wolfsp.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
> 
> However, if I run wolf(the single/multi-player selector program which
> grabs to audio device), I get sound in "wolf" but get no audio when  
> I select single player(which ends up calling wolfsp).
> 
> Does this make sense?
> 
> Sean
> 
> P.S.  I pretty much have to do the same thing(echo commands as above
> except change wolfsp.x86 to et.x86) to get Enemy Territory working.

It sounds like it's the sound card. You are using your motherboards onboard
sound card right?? I've been using both Creative SBLive & Audigy cards (1 & 2)
with both the OSS drivers (Older 2.4 Kernel system) and the ALSA drivers
(Current RHEL4 2.6 Kernel system) and I don't have that problem you describe.
Since these cards are multichannel and allow up to 32-64 voices (Channels). So
it seems that your onboard sound card isn't a proper multichannel card (At
least not in hardware anyway).

I've run RTCW, ET, Doom 3, UT2K4 etc, with these cards & drivers without
problems, even on FC4. (Here at the office, just testing it at the moment)

The better solution is to disable the onboard sound card and put in a Creative
SBlive or Audigy 1 or 2 card and you will find that will work better and you
won't have to tweak it to work, as it just works..

Wolf
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