Re: OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2

[Pollywog <croak@shadypond.com>]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:52:07 -0800, Nate Amsden said:

>  is anything else using the sound device? for me when i load unreal
>  tournament and something is using /dev/dsp then it pukes hard i must
>  ssh in from another machine and kill it.
>  
>  if you have no sound do you know if the game works without sound?
>  some programs may just die with no warning if no soundcard/drivers
>  are found.

I am using the ALSA sound drivers.  I have used Quake 1 on this
machine but I was using the OSS Commercial drivers then.
I thought that might be the problem.  Maybe I need to turn sound off
and see what happens.

thanks

--
Andrew