Sound issues with games

[MrGrumpy]

Ok had a search of the forums and theres a lot of info with regard sound problems, so here goes with my tales of woe. I installed Enemy Territory no probs but I`m getting no sound out of it, the following is the error message /dev/dsp: Cannot allocate memory now I`m running a Gigabyte NForce 2 board, now my understanding is that nvidia uses OSS for sound and not ALSA which seems to be what the other guides on here seem to lean towards, so I suppose does anyone have any ideas how to get this working or otherwise. I should say sound on the desktop works as does the various media players, just games is a no go !!

Ali

[Slalomsk8er]

$ killall -9 esd
$ /usr/local/games/enemy-territory/et


This works for me ;)

[PsyberOne]

What I've found is to chown /dev/dsp to your user name, it's ugly but it works for me (maybe some kind of script to set that on login)

[bruce89]

What I did was go to Synaptic and installed libsdl1.2debian-all and uninstalled libsdl1.2debian-oss. This fixed all the sounds in Tuxracer anyway.

[arrizaba]

But, do you have to do:

$ killall -9 esd

everytime you want to play?

Is there a way of turning off esd from Hoary by default and use ALSA?

[Raven-sb]

$ killall -9 esd
$ /usr/local/games/enemy-territory/et


This works for me ;)


It works with me too. However I am wondering what is causing the problem with the sound, and is there a way of resolving it so that sound for games is accessable without having to enter the command.

Edit: Many thanks Bruce89, your post resolved my sound problems with Battle for Wesnoth.

[digby]

What really interests me is why my sound in Cedega (4.3) seems to work so intermittently. The only game I have installed with it is Warcraft III. Sometimes I will start it and get an error that the sound could not be initialized. Sometimes it's persistant; sometimes I can close it and re-open, and it will be fine.

edit: comma splice