Anyone tried to play quake3 (-engine) with linux 2.6.3?

rotux · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 72

With the newly available linux-2.6.3, I get no sound in quake 3 and other games with it's engine (ET), the same problem that I had with earlier mm-kernels with alsa enabled (ERROR: could not mmap /dev/dsp).
I found a workaround in the forum and by adding entries into /proc/...etc.../oss i get sound , but after that, the sound sounds horrible, and the game crashes after a few seconds.

Has anyone got q3-engine games to work with 2.6.3?

Dalrain · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject:

To answer your question, yes perfectly.

I play a bit of Urban Terror, which runs great. As for your sound issues, I'm not sure what that might be...I've enabled OSS emulation, perhaps that's your issue?

substance · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jan 2004 Posts: 125

my shit works fine with 2.6.3 ...
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rotux · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 72

I'm using the same kernel setup as for the 2.6.2 kernel, which works fine for me:

ALSA:
<*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<*> Sequencer support
<*> Sequencer dummy client
[*] OSS API emulation
<*> OSS Mixer API
<*> OSS PCM (digital audio) API

ALSA PCI Decives:
<*> Intel i8x0/MX440, SiS 7012; Ali 5455; NForce Audio; AMD768/8111

Maybe its a bug that only concerns the i8x0 driver?

wishkah · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 441 Location: de

Um, Enemy Territory is quake 3 engine, so I guess it's working perfectly fine with my 2.6.3-ck1. UT2004 demo works, Quake 2 works, UT 99 works, hell, even Frozen Bubble works fine ;-)

I'm using the intel8x0 driver and kernel alsa.

EDIT: quake 3 itself does NOT work. It crashes at the first frame (only when I use the "echo quake3.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/... fix, if I don't do that, it works fine (but without sound, which sucks) But I had this problem before, it has nothing todo with the 2.6.3 kernel, that's for sure.
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rotux · n00b Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 72

It has to do with the integration of alsa 1.0.X since 2.6.3 as I just found out at the alsa bucktracking page (http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000015), and there is no workaround as of now, as it seems... I'll stick with 2.6.2 for now or use old alsa drivers...

To · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:36 am Post subject:

There are several ppl complaing about slowdowns on kernel 2.6.3 . I donno what's wrong but I'm having the same problem.

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PrakashP · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:05 am Post subject:

I haven't tried yet, but a fix may already be in cvs. The alsa 1.x release broke resamplng for intel8x0, which should have been fixed. It is NOT yet in 1.0.2c.

Isaiah · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 359

For what it's worth, gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3-r2 woking here (intel8x0) - it's the first one that's worked since development-sources-2.6.2 (gotta have my Q3A and ET) :wink:

PrakashP · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:42 pm Post subject:

Could you please post output of:

DaMouse · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 233

Quake3 freezes are due to a fault in alsa iirc (maybe just intel8x0) it doesn't appear to affect ET except you can't mmap stuff. I have a script that enables sound for ET and such:

for i in `echo wolf et wolfsp`; do
echo "$i.x86 0 0 sayable" >>/proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
echo "$i.x86 0 0 direct" >>/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
done

but Quake3 needs OSS for me or it freezes.
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PrakashP · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject:

Ok, I compiled latest love-source, which is based on 2.6.3-mm3 and the quake3 issue is resolved.

fldc · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Sweden

This is also resolved in gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.3-gentoo-r2), this issue has been resolved in alsa-cvs, now merged in this release, sound in q3 with no freezing loading map, using intel8x0

charlieg · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:10 am Post subject:

Hmm so nothing to do with using dmix or the lack of it?
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eyd · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:

Woop! 2.6.3-mm3 works for me!

Voffinn · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:55 am Post subject:

PrakashP · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:02 am Post subject:

Well, maybe the resampler in the via module is still broken, so report to alsa mailing list.