Re: [SLE] Quake2 on 6.4 - a solution !

I'll resend this as it looks like all mail has been lost :-( it may help others ? Pete -------------------------------------------------- Hooray - I have managed to get it working although I'm not sure that I am using the system to its best :-( Step 1) Recompiled the kernel without support for ATI Mach 64 (Console Driver) - it wasn't in 6.1 IIRC. Step 2) Ran ./quake2 +set vid_ref softx in 'X' - didn't work still.. Step 3) Ran ./quake2 +set vid_ref soft in a console - worked fine (no sound) Step 4) Ran ./quake2 +set vid_ref softx in 'X' - worked fine (no sound - couldn't switch /dev/dsp to stereo) Step 5) Ran above but added +set sndchannel 1 (to make it mono - its only a SB 64 card) - but still couldn't default to 16 bits so.. Step 6) Ran above but added +set sndbits 8 and voila ! A fully functioning Quake2 albeit in mono but I'm not worried about that I don't know why the above was necessary - but thanks to all for your suggestions. Pete On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote:

I have sound running but its not through OSS, I have used alsa.. I have > cat'd a .wav file to /dev/dsp and its ok.. > ls -l /dev/dsp is > crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 24 21:57 /dev/dsp

I have tried running it in a console and it does bring up the game but the picture is unviewable..

Can I clarify - if I have a MACH64 card should I now be using the glx mode or is softx still the correct option - I seem to remember someone saying that with 6.4 there has been a change to some of the Xservers ?

- On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 08:47:43AM +0100, pete atkinson wrote: > > I've checked the group and I am a member of the audio group.. > > > > I also missed one line out of the error > > XIO: fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server ":0.0" > > after 40 requests (40 known processed) with 0 events remain > >

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I have also tried to set sndmono 1 to see if that helped.. although I suspected I am looking at an 'X' problem than a sound problem - I may be wrong !

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Hello pete, on Saturday, June 17, 2000 at 23:06:12 +0100, you sat in front of your keyboard and wrote:

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I hope that this is not a silly question...

When I was running 6.1, I installed Quake2 quite happily with my ATI Expert 98 graphics card, it has a MACH64 chipset..

now that I have upgraded to 6.4 (and its definately worth it despite a couple of problems) I have the following problem..

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pete@seagull1:/usr/local/games/quake2 > ./quake2 +set vid_ref softx Added packfile ./baseq2/pak0.pak (3307 files) Added packfile ./baseq2/pak1.pak (279 files) Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files) execing default.cfg couldn't exec config.cfg Console initialized.

------- sound initialization ------- /dev/dsp: Input/output error Could not set /dev/dsp to stereo=2------- Loading ref_softx.so ------ - setting mode 0: 320 240 MITSHM shared memory (id=1794, addr=0x4034b000) MITSHM shared memory (id=1795, addr=0x40371000) 808k surface cache ref_soft version: SOFT 0.01 ------------------------------------ CDAudio_Init: open of "/dev/cdrom" failed (13) ------- Loading gamei386.so ------- ==== InitGame ==== ------- Server Initialization ------- 0 entities inhibited 0 teams with 0 entities ------------------------------------- ====== Quake2 Initialized ======

0.0.0.0:0: client_connect

------- sound initialization ------- Cmd_AddCommand: play already defined Cmd_AddCommand: stopsound already defined Cmd_AddCommand: soundlist already defined Cmd_AddCommand: soundinfo already defined /dev/dsp: Invalid argument Could not reset /dev/dsp XIO: fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server ":0.0"

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and back to the command line..

can anybody help ?

Many thanks

Pete

Is your user a member of the audio group? That may be a permission problem.

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