yet another Q3 sound issue

raduned · 2006-11-26 22:59:16

hi.. could u give me a little help? I've just finished installing Quake 3, it works just fine, but I'm having a small sound problem: when I login as non-root, it sounds bad because of some pauses.. it's not continuous... and my user is in the audio group..

noriko · 2006-11-27 11:08:28

umm, can u pastbin the outputs please ...

to >> http://pastebin.archlinux.org

get the output like so ...
as root the command u use to run quake followed by '> with_root.op'
then
as user the command u use to run quake followed by '> with_user.op'

for example
[user@localhost ~]$quake.x86 > with_user.op
then
[root@localhost ~]#quake.x86 > with_root.op

then post em to the pastebin,

btw, don't start playing ... simply start the game to the menus and then quit it.

raduned · 2006-11-27 13:16:30

Ok, I pretty much got the idea, but.. I don't have anything to paste.. the with_root.op file is EMPTY.. And I don't have permission for > with_user . I also tried chmod o+rw /dev/dsp.. no change at all..

noriko · 2006-11-27 18:14:35

empty? are you sure?
...
hmm, in that case can u pastebin what is printed to the console?
as much as possible, it's the same as before, i just wanted to ensure that none of it is truncated in the console...

raduned · 2006-11-27 19:31:33

I already have, but only the sound section.. It is identical for both root and user, and it says ) "Sound system is mute".. That means that as a non root user I must be deaf

noriko · 2006-11-29 00:04:18

hmm.. maybe the device is in use,
try killing esd, artsd...

killall esd

or

killall artsd

or whatever ur sound mixer system is, if it's not arts or esd... (not alsa)
do that then run teh game, i remember having similar issues whenever artsd was left running back in teh dark ages when i used kde lol

baze · 2006-11-29 06:47:35

if you use ioquake3, then you might want to try disabling openal, which has some soundbugs here too.
just change s_useopenaL to 0 in quake

raduned · 2006-12-01 09:28:21

I've fixed it.. After googleing a while I found something that worked for me. First I tried #echo "quake3.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss and there was no change, and then I chowned /dev/audio,mixer,dsp and voila.. It works just fine.. Anyway, thank you for helping me..

raduned · 2006-12-04 09:59:35

Excuse the bad language, but crap! it doesn't work.. after rebooting my box... it stopped working.... and back 2 ground 0...

noriko · 2006-12-05 00:57:12

u can add the commands to /etc/rc.local
then they'll be execed on each boot

raduned · 2007-05-11 13:02:18

It got fixed by itself once I installed VooDoo

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yet another Q3 sound issue

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