Q: lxdoom, no sound

**Bloch** · February 20th, 2006

Thanks mhancoc7 for that older debian package for lxdoom-sndserv.
I aptget remove lzdoom-sndserv
and installed the new one with dpkg.
Now I have sound. . . . . Are there so few people playing doom 1 on ubuntu? It took me a while to find this solution. For doom fans, install the freedoom package (in universe) to see a new version of doom with much more interesting sound.
It seems odd that there's no fullscreen ability on lxdoom though . . .

**mhancoc7** · February 21st, 2006

No problem. It took me awhile to get it figured out as well. I am glad that you found this thread. Yeah I wish lxdoom had full screen too. For now I just use the following command which sets the window to a size that fills my screen just right. I use the turbo command to slow it down a bit.

/usr/games/lxdoom -width 1023 -height 673 -iwad /home/mhancoc7/doom/DOOM.WAD -turbo 75

God Bless, Jereme

**Yagisan** · February 21st, 2006

Originally Posted by Bloch

Are there so few people playing doom 1 on ubuntu? It took me a while to find this solution.

It's not that there are few people playing doom, rather it is that other ports such as prboom or deng are preferred to lxdoom.

**Burgresso** · March 14th, 2006

I noticed this, hoping it would solve the problem for me too.

Hi, I just upgraded to Breezy. I noticed that I had lost my sound with lxdoom. I fixed it by downgrading my lxdoom-sndserv to the Hoary release. I have attaced the deb. Hope this helps, Jereme

Attached Files
File Type: gz lxdoom-sndserv_1.4.4-9ubuntu1_i386.deb.tar.gz (47.2 KB, 12 views)

But being a noob, how would I do this? Thanks in advance!

**mhancoc7** · March 14th, 2006

Hi Burgresso,
No problem.

You will need to download the file that I attached. Then extract its contents to you Home directory. You can do this by right clicking on the file and selecting extract here with it in your Home directory. Then open a Terminal window and type the following command.

sudo dpkg -i lxdoom-sndserv_1.4.4-9ubuntu1_i386.deb

That should install the old version of the lxdoom-sndserv. If it asks you if you intend to downgrade just say yes.

I hope that helps.

God Bless, Jereme

**Burgresso** · March 15th, 2006

Thanks Jerome, I'll try that tonight. You rock.

UPDATE: It worked! Thanks again - the sound effects are not on!

**wanger123** · May 13th, 2006

Many thanks for the .deb Jereme!

I just pass this command for fullscreen on my widescreen laptop

$ lxdoom -width 1440 -height 900

ciao

wanger

**fululian** · October 9th, 2007

Originally Posted by mhancoc7

Hi, I just upgraded to Breezy. I noticed that I had lost my sound with lxdoom. I fixed it by downgrading my lxdoom-sndserv to the Hoary release. I have attaced the deb. Hope this helps, Jereme

gee, you're one clever guy. 't will be a doom-playing night for me. thanks a lot.