Quake 3 problems (audio and video)

[noerej]

Hello people,

I've installed Quake 3 from the Windows version. When I try to run it I have no sound.
This is the output regarding the sound I get :

------- sound initialization -------
Could not mmap dma buffer PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ
trying mmap PROT_WRITE (with associated better compatibility / less performance code)
/dev/dsp: Input/output error
Could not mmap /dev/dsp

[thrift]

Are you using alsa for the sound? I've had this problem before, there are plenty of ways to get around it. I'd do a google search for your mmap error...

[noerej]

Yes, I'm using ALSA for sound. I found that entering echo "quake3.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss as root helps. Now it'd be nice if I was able to put it in a nice little script which I can run every time I run Quake 3. Up until now I haven't been able to do this, despite numerous attempts.
Are there any other workarounds for this?

[thrift]

simply add it on startup.

You don't need it every time you start quake if it's already been done. /etc/init.d/gdm would be a great place for it, since your not going to be starting quake without X and GDM loads X.

[noerej]

I added it to the file you said, and sound now works on startup! Much thanks thrift!

But now when I connect to a multiplayer game, the game hangs just before entering the game. Any ideas?

[tomdeb]

echo "quake3.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
In my case this didn't, don't ask me why.

I had to install esound-clients via
sudo aptitude install esound-clients

whish provides esdctl command

then create a script quake3-esd-sh


esdctl off
sleep 5
quake3 +set "fs_game osp"
esdctl on


hope this helps

[noerej]

Well, I don't know if the hangups are related to the sound, but that would seem odd to me. In single player mode the game hangs when I finish a match, and in multiplayer it hangs on the screen "waiting for snapshot".

[noerej]

*bump*