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wootsgoinon

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Registered: 2013-10-30

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[SOLVED] no audio in some (rather old, native) games

soldier of fortune, unreal tournament, heretic II, postal to name a few work just fine except that there's no sound at all. i understand they use oss. a couple of months back i tried the padsp switcher but that wouldn't work either. I've got alsa and pulseaudio installed. also openal. any hints?

EDIT:
found a possible solution:

modprobe snd-pcm-oss

(theoretically) this applies to all of the loki games.

Last edited by wootsgoinon (2014-04-30 09:13:15)

ondoho

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Re: [SOLVED] no audio in some (rather old, native) games

there was this oss emulation for alsa, if i only could remember the name...

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emeres

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Re: [SOLVED] no audio in some (rather old, native) games

@ondoho
You mean aoss found in alsa-oss.

ondoho

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Re: [SOLVED] no audio in some (rather old, native) games

why is this marked solved?
others might benefit if you share your solution.

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wootsgoinon

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Re: [SOLVED] no audio in some (rather old, native) games

i have. see the EDIT section.

wootsgoinon

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Re: [SOLVED] no audio in some (rather old, native) games

there was this oss emulation for alsa, if i only could remember the name...

osspd-alsa (and osspd-pulseaudio for pulse). but that one didn't solve it for me.