Dhar
March 4th, 2006, 01:21 AM
Ok, so I dug out my Quake3 to play against my wife...a big Quake3 fan. It worked great with Gentoo, so it should work even better with Ubuntu -- after all, everything else seems to, right? Oops, no...
First I had the sound problem. That and two sound cards. So I managed to fix that with the snddevice "/dev/dsp1" and the echo "blah blah disabled" fixes. Sound is great, single player is great. I can even play my personal crack -- Enemy Territory just fine! \\:D/
But if I try to start a Quake3 multiplayer game, either starting a server or joining someone else's, the game hangs on the first frame of graphics. I can switch to a virtual terminal to kill it, so it's not a hard hang. Quake3 doesn't report anything wrong on the console -- in fact, the last thing it reports is "Dhar^7 entered the game". This is a Total Bummer (tm).
I tried the Icculus binary, but that doesn't have sound -- I can't even fix that with the fixes I listed earlier, so that's a non-starter.
It's not my driver (nvidia): I can run in single player mode fine.
It's not my network: I can play Enemy Territory until my wife kills me.
It's not sound: I already tackled that one.
It's not hardware of any kind: this worked on Gentoo!
Anyone have any ideas at all? :confused: This is close to an Ubuntu-breaker for me, and I'm not overly fond of the "takes a week to install KDE" days of Gentoo, but if I must...
Thanks!
-g.
First I had the sound problem. That and two sound cards. So I managed to fix that with the snddevice "/dev/dsp1" and the echo "blah blah disabled" fixes. Sound is great, single player is great. I can even play my personal crack -- Enemy Territory just fine! \\:D/
But if I try to start a Quake3 multiplayer game, either starting a server or joining someone else's, the game hangs on the first frame of graphics. I can switch to a virtual terminal to kill it, so it's not a hard hang. Quake3 doesn't report anything wrong on the console -- in fact, the last thing it reports is "Dhar^7 entered the game". This is a Total Bummer (tm).
I tried the Icculus binary, but that doesn't have sound -- I can't even fix that with the fixes I listed earlier, so that's a non-starter.
It's not my driver (nvidia): I can run in single player mode fine.
It's not my network: I can play Enemy Territory until my wife kills me.
It's not sound: I already tackled that one.
It's not hardware of any kind: this worked on Gentoo!
Anyone have any ideas at all? :confused: This is close to an Ubuntu-breaker for me, and I'm not overly fond of the "takes a week to install KDE" days of Gentoo, but if I must...
Thanks!
-g.