Info: Space Trader

[Cappy]

Here's a commercial game I've never heard of before but comes with a Linux port:

In the far future humanity is ruled by The Ministry of Accounts, an oppressive bureaucracy that tracks, records and taxes every transaction of daily life. From the depths of Red Tape a new breed of marketeer arises to challenge the authority and make a profit: the Space Trader is born!

Space Trader is a fast paced action trading game in full 3D. Players compete to make money by buying and selling commodities, capturing fugitives and collecting stash. Challenge yourself, your friends, and your foes in a bid to become the wealthiest Trader in space!

http://www.playspacetrader.com/

There is also a linux demo, located here: http://www.playspacetrader.com/syste...inux_en-US.run

[cogadh]

Wow a single player game for Linux that actually looks pretty good. I'll definitely be giving the demo a try later (must sleep now...).

[Perfect Storm]

Nice found

[The Cosmic Hobo]

Looks pretty spiffy, and the price is incredibly reasonable, too.

[Vadi]

Played the game before, it's kinda fun.

[cogadh]

I've got no sound in the game, it keeps producing this error when I try running it normally:

/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Could not open /dev/dsp
Sound intialization failed.

If I try to specify the sound system by running it with -alsa, -oss or -esd after the command, the error chages to this:

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
Sound intialization failed.

I've already confirmed that my user is a part of the "audio" group and sound does work on everything else. Anyone got any ideas?

Oh, and I am using Kubuntu 8.04 (finally upgraded from 7.10).

[Cappy]

Have you tried installing alsa-oss and running it with

aoss /path/to/game

[cogadh]

Okay, that was a step in the right direction, I now get sound, but it is extremely choppy and full of pops and cracks. Actually, the silence was somewhat better

Any other ideas?

[plinydogg]

I've got a sound problem too. Here's the sound portion of the output when I run this game from the command line:

------ Initializing Sound ------
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
Sound intialization failed.

[billybag]

i keep running into this problem too with a lot of games.

here is an example from Digital paintball 2

 ~/.paintball2 $ ./paintball2

Paintball 2 -- Version 2.0
execing configs/config.cfg
Console initialized.

------- sound initialization -------
LoadLibrary("./snd_oss.so")
dlopen("q2a3d.so") failed: q2a3d.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error loading up q2a3d module.
------------------------------------
------- Loading ref_pbgl.so -------
LoadLibrary("./ref_pbgl.so")
ref_gl version: PB2GL 0.22
Using libGL.so for OpenGL...
Initializing OpenGL display
...setting mode 18: 1280 768
Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.2
I got 8 bits of red
I got 8 bits of blue
I got 8 bits of green
I got 24 bits of depth
I got 8 bits of alpha
I got 8 bits of stencil
Using hardware gamma
------------------------------------
====== Paintball II Initialized ======

70.85.9.178:27900: vninitresponse
70.85.9.178:27900: vnresponse

------- sound initialization -------
LoadLibrary("./snd_oss.so")
/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
SNDDMA_Init: Could not open /dev/dsp.

------- sound initialization -------
LoadLibrary("./snd_oss.so")
dlopen("q2a3d.so") failed: q2a3d.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error loading up q2a3d module.
Cmd_AddCommand: play already defined
Cmd_AddCommand: stopsound already defined
Cmd_AddCommand: soundlist already defined
Cmd_AddCommand: soundinfo already defined
------------------------------------
recursive shutdown