Re: Quake 2 Troubles
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 04:01, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Mannequin* wrote:
> >------- sound initialization -------
> >/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> >SNDDMA_Init: Could not open /dev/dsp.
>
> quake2 doesn't yet properly open the DSP on powerpc machines, and it's
> something I've been trying to find time to look at for a long time now :-)
> Hopefully a fix very soon.
For anyone interested,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=131865 says it all
really.
FWIW, sound still works perfectly here with sdlquake2 from icculus.org,
and it also supports Quake2MAX and retexturing. :)
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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