No sound in Ennemy Territory

[tellnes]

Hey all..
I have just gone from Fedora core 4 to ubuntu, and i love it:p

Anyway, after installing enemy territory, i dont get any sound the game.
Sound works great in ubuntu in general, music,movies etc..just not in ET:(

Any idea what plugin, sound system i should use? using esd now, have tried alsa, dident deem to work..

Any tips all you linux gurus out there:)

thx
-tellnes-

[seethru]

is it giving you any errors?

[jeffreyvergara.NET]

try running ET using "sudo et"

[tellnes]

try running ET using "sudo et"

That worked:p

Noob alert on me!!

So i guess there is something with the permissions then, i installed the game as root, but i changed permissions on the file to allow myself permissions, must be something there anyway.

Maybe you could explain why this occured, then i could learn something today:)
Thx alot in advance!!

-tellnes-

[drummer]

I put this in the file /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh (at the end, before ": exit 0") to get sound working in et, without having to run it as root. Putting it in this file just makes sure that it's run when the computer boots, otherwise you'd need to run that command in a terminal as root (not just with sudo) each time you reboot.

#sound for et
echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
I've also experienced problems with permissions, especially when et downloads extra .pk3 files, I fixed this by doing this:
sudo chown -R user:user /usr/local/games/enemy-territory
sudo chown -R user:user ~/.etwolfwhere user is your username. This happened when running et as a normal user, you may not have this problem, but here's my fix if it does happen.

[keyes]

[Ok now it's working fine]

[tellnes]

Well, running et as sudo works, but it just dropps out after a while, also killing esd and running et works, yet i drop out of the game after x amaount of time..so something else must be wrong..i have nvidia drivers and all..just cant figure out why it suddenly stops and trows me back out to the desktop..

[tellnes]

Ok, killing esd, then running ET, it works..for an x amount of time..
I can see in the terminal

reciving signal II
exiting

I get trown out of the game just like that..and suddenly my pc/motherboard started beeping like crazy, like a alarm.

What is this? signal II?

Have to say gaming worked better in fedora:(

[easy_target]

I have been looking for this solution since Warty, and now, here it is! Thank you very much for your effort and help to the gaming community!:D

[lateo]

if u lauch it from pannel, try disable event 'choose menu element' sound:
system>preferences>sound, events, user interface

if from the command line, try exit multimedia apps 5 sec before lanching the game.

[PopaKap]

Hey Im just getting used to ubuntu. ET works but the sound dont. Im running it with sudo and it still dont. This the error im getting if anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it.

------- sound initialization -------
/dev/dsp: Input/output error
Could not mmap /dev/dsp
------------------------------------
Sound memory manager started
Sys_LoadDll(/home/kelly20/.etwolf/tcetest/ui.mp.i386.so)...
Sys_LoadDll(/home/kelly20/.etwolf/tcetest/ui.mp.i386.so) failed:
"/home/kelly20/.etwolf/tcetest/ui.mp.i386.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
Sys_LoadDll(/usr/local/games/enemy-territory/tcetest/ui.mp.i386.so)... ok
Sys_LoadDll(ui) found **vmMain** at 0xadcc1cc0
Sys_LoadDll(ui) succeeded!

is it wiritng to the wrong place or should i make it write somewhere else ?
thanks

[emperor]

Hey Im just getting used to ubuntu. ET works but the sound dont. Im running it with sudo and it still dont. This the error im getting if anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it.

------- sound initialization -------
/dev/dsp: Input/output error
Could not mmap /dev/dsp
------------------------------------


looks like it needs the OSS drivers. I found that games need the "sdl" drivers.

libsdl1.2debian-oss -or- libsdl1.2debian-all

[PopaKap]

sound works in all my other apps tho

i installed the all one in synapt and box turned green next to it and it still dont work
it is still saying the same error
thanks for the reply

[emperor]

sound works in all my other apps tho

i installed the all one in synapt and box turned green next to it and it still dont work
it is still saying the same error
thanks for the reply

I also have alsa-oss installed and the sound input changed to OSS.

Do you have sound in other linux games like "supertux" or "frozen bubble"?

[PopaKap]

it works in "warsow"
how do i switch it to oss or is that already done ?

[emperor]

it works in "warsow"
how do i switch it to oss or is that already done ?

System - Preferences - Multimedia Systems Selector

Then change Input to OSS.

[windowmaker]

i have recently install RTCW: ET, and i followed the guide at http://ubuntuguide.org/#configuresoundproperly and the sound worked perfectly, however when i turned my PC on this morning the sound for RTCW: ET had stopped working, and i am stumped on how to get it working again =(

[ViGiLnT]

i had no sound in ET before doing what someone said earlier on this thread.
Now ive got sound, but i cant play listening to xmms...only one of the 2 apps must be off in order to the other work...

is there a way to solve this ?

Another question:

is it only me or u guys cant also toggle the console with the "\" button ?

[Zimmer]

i had no sound in ET before doing what someone said earlier on this thread.
Now ive got sound, but i cant play listening to xmms...only one of the 2 apps must be off in order to the other work...

is there a way to solve this ?

Another question:

is it only me or u guys cant also toggle the console with the "\" button ?

Hi,
Have a look at my post #6 here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=98167
Works for me... and others..
I now always launch ET from a terminal...
Regards

[ViGiLnT]

I've got sound... Everything that you instructed to do in your post, i have already done...
What I want is to be able to play ET with xmms playing also, i dont know if that's possible...

[leetcharmer]

looks like it needs the OSS drivers. I found that games need the "sdl" drivers.

libsdl1.2debian-oss -or- libsdl1.2debian-all

I had the same problem as him


------- sound initialization -------
/dev/dsp: Input/output error
Could not mmap /dev/dsp
------------------------------------

But the libsdl drivers didn't help.

[leetcharmer]

sudo su
echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
echo "et.x86 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss


That worked for me.
It turns out that et wants to get access to all of your sound card, so this should limit it to just what it needs :D

[EPOX123]

Try to compile this program it got my m-audio audiophile 2496 to work.

http://www.craknet.net/joss/

I made a deb pack dont have a place to upload it.

[AngryKidJoe]

sudo su
echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
echo "et.x86 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
How does one undo that? Now ET won't even boot.

[Zimmer]

sudo su
echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
echo "et.x86 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
How does one undo that? Now ET won't even boot.

It should not be permanent, a re boot would empty the oss file, but hey, go to Nautilus and see if there is any text in the file and if so delete the offending lines...

Personally I do not issue the second of those echo statements to get ET to run with sound..
Are you running ET from a Terminal command?

[ubuntu_demon]

First make sure ubuntu is installed properly:


$sudo apt-get install ubuntu-base ubuntu-desktop

This will install alsa-oss. oss is needed for sound in a lot of games :


$sudo apt-get install alsa-oss

You will probably need this module for oss :


$sudo modprobe snd_seq_oss

If the modprobe didn't give an error make sure it gets loaded with each boot :


$ sudo pico /etc/modules

and add this line (if it's not there yet) :

snd_seq_oss

OSS stuff (mostly games) will still tie up the sound card, but they don't run all the time. Just configure most things to use esound/esd and you'll be good.

Now do a reboot just in case. And before you start :

$sudo su
$echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
$exit

I'm not entirely sure whether the second line is needed but it can't hurt.

Now start the game :

$cd /usr/local/games/enemy-territory
$./et.x86

Still no sound ?

You might try to put the word "aoss" in front ($aoss ./et.86) But for me this produces choppy sound while normally my sound is okay.
$aoss ./et.86

You might try killing all esd :
$sudo killall esd
$./et.86

If it still doesn't work try this sound guide :

Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

[Jaymo]

sudo su
echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
echo "et.x86 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss


That worked for me.
It turns out that et wants to get access to all of your sound card, so this should limit it to just what it needs :D

Brilliant, fixed my problem :).

[chuck_h1987]

the Echo commands worked for me too thanks.

[Jedah]

looks like it needs the OSS drivers. I found that games need the "sdl" drivers.

libsdl1.2debian-oss -or- libsdl1.2debian-all

That's how I solved my problem with no sound in ET. It's a common problem with Linux and id Software games. The games seem to work with oss rather than any other driver. Doom 3 required to change the sound system in its cfg file to oss. I highly recommend to install libsdl1.2debian-all instead of changing your system's configuration and creating scripts that kill other sound related processes.