Re: Game doesn't work with DCOP

[Matías Costa <mcc3@alu.um.es>]

El Lunes, 2 de Mayo de 2005 01:05, Christian Stalp escribió:
> Hello Matthias,
> I don't know if you speak german so I write in english.
> My Problem is that I want to play with Neverwinter Nights, a superb
> Roleplaying Game from Bioware. Its supporting Linux directly ( not via wine
> or other emulation) .

>The Problem now is, since I use Debian Sarge and therefore KDE 3.3 I cannot 
>play NWN while DCOP or aRTs is running.

Yesterday I switched to arts, now works better than the last time I tested it. 
Akode looks a great piece of software. But enemy territory also refuses to 
play sounds. So I did a script and prepended it to the game command 
(/usr/local/bin/et witch is already a script). The code snippet is here:

#######################################################################
ERR="No error message set"
function arts_suspend () {
        ps artsd &> /dev/null || return 0
        RETRY=true
        TRY=0
        while true; do
                MESSAGE=`artsshell suspend 2>&1`
                if [ "$MESSAGE" = "sound server is busy" ]; then
                        TRY=$(($TRY + 1))
                        if [ $TRY -gt 2 ]; then
                                ERR="Arts is busy (is amarok or juk open?)"
                                return 1
                        fi
                        sleep 1
                elif [ "$MESSAGE" = "unable to connect to sound server" ]; 
then
                        return 0
                elif [ "$MESSAGE" = "sound server suspended" ]; then
                        return 0
                else # We do not know what happened... What to do here?
                        ERR="Could not understand arts output."
                        ERR="${ERR}\nSuspend it with 'artsshell suspend'"
                        return 1
                fi
        done
}

function abort_this () {
        kdialog --error "Could not suspend arts:\n$ERR"
        exit 0
}

arts_suspend || abort_this
#####################################################################

Yeah, I had nothing to do this night, and better to share something with a 
minimal quality, not the usual "killall artsd".