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Re: trouble with Quake3+ALSA+debian



On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:20:54PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote:
> We have a fairly stock Debian/testing system.  Layered over this is the 
> 0.9.0beta6 ALSA packages (driver,lib,utils) and Quake3 Arena.  We also 
> have a via686a sound card built on an Aopen-63k-pro motherboard.
> 
> The sound for all applications (xmms, kscd, realplay, etc.) works as 
> expected except for Quake3.  I have read about the problems with Quake 
> in this newsgroup, but I would like to ask again for current knowledge.
> 
> We receive the message that it cannot find the /dev/dsp device.  This 
> is strange because all the required modules are loaded and seem to be 
> working as they should.
> 
> Does anyone know what can be done to correct this problem? I have 
> attached the relevant configuration files. 

What's the exact error message?  Does Q3 work as root?

> Also, is 0.9.0beta6 more current than 0.5.11 ?

Yep.

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>



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