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October 14th, 2006, 10:35 PM
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dom3 linux alsa?
Hi fellas,
It seems dom3 is using oss for audio still, which wouldn't normally be a big deal, but for some reason alsa's regular oss emulation doesn't seem to work with dom3.
Anyone else having problems with dom3 and linux audio?
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October 15th, 2006, 03:36 AM
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Re: dom3 linux alsa?
I use (K)Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 and I have no problem with sound. I use ALSA.
I have to admit, though, that sound effects are slightly laggy , a fraction of a second or something. That is, there's a very short interval between clicking a menu button and hearing click sound.
There was no interval for me in Dominions2, because I used OSS back then. But OSS has poor mixing on ac97 so I switched to ALSA.
The intervals I'm speaking about are typical for 'OSS programs' emulated with ALSA. What's curious, however, is that I typically have to manually do the emulation with a command 'aoss programname'.
WHat's your distro and do you have alsa-oss package installed ?
Oh, one last thing. I know a dirty trick to temporarily switch back to oss. It works in Kubuntu 6.06 at least.
killall artsd
run a program
try to play a sound outside the game and artsd returns.
(as I understand, artsd is some kind of KDE sound thingy)
That's all I can say. My Geforce2 MX is suffering from old age afflictions and it simply freezes if I don't use vesa driver. I can't run Dom3demo until I get another card.
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October 15th, 2006, 06:37 AM
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Re: dom3 linux alsa?
You can try "dom3 --oss" to skip using artsd if possible. That should reduce sound lag to a minimum and maybe it's artsd that is causing problem for SalsaDoom.
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October 15th, 2006, 07:02 AM
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Re: dom3 linux alsa?
artsd is one of KDE3's biggest mistake (development stopped shortly after they chose it). It's a sound daemon, capable of mixing and such. It will be replaced with Phonon in KDE4 (with a gstreamer backend, if anyone cares).
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October 16th, 2006, 07:12 AM
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Corporal
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Re: dom3 linux alsa?
Well, I fixed it. Dom3 still crashes rudely if I don't specifiy -o on the cmd line, but thats not really a problem for someone like me.
I re-installed my alsa-oss libs, apparently they got diddled up in some upgrade.

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