Doesn bzflag work with alsa? I jsut installed the dmix-plugin...for alsa and it works for xine as far as I know. Does somebody know how to let bzflag use alsa? Is it possible?
Thanks.
bzflag+alsa
BZFlag does not use ALSA natively, you need the OSS emulation layer (the modules sussudio mentioned). If it doesn't work, I'm not sure what's wrong. Do you have a soundserver blocking your soundcard? Some cards don't support multiple open channels in the hardware, and then ALSA won't support that either, which means that only one process can play sound. Xine is a KDE program (I think?), maybe it's using the aRts sound server? If aRts is running and your card doesn't support several channels, BZFlag won't be able to open the sound device.
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Hm, although the following solution will probably not work so well with BZflag (sound latency (delays)), you can try running it if everything else fails:
artsdsp bzflag
Or, if you use ESD:
esddsp bzflag
But as larsl says... Try closing whatever application is blocking, or just shutdown Arts or ESD altogether.
Dave
artsdsp bzflag
Or, if you use ESD:
esddsp bzflag
But as larsl says... Try closing whatever application is blocking, or just shutdown Arts or ESD altogether.
Dave
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xine is independent of whatever desktop manager you're using.
As was stated before, if you have any sound apps open while you try to run bzflag, bzflag will not be able to open the /dev/dsp device to play audio. You can start bzflag from the command line, and then quit. Then look right below the line where you started bzflag, if bzflag can't open the sound device, it'll tell you so. If this is the case, then find out what's open (usually, as mentioned before, some sound server like arts or esd), kill it, and try starting bzflag again.
If you have a dual-channel sound card, you can get the sound server and bzflag simultaneously playing music -- but I've never been sucessful with it.
Good luck.
Fiber
As was stated before, if you have any sound apps open while you try to run bzflag, bzflag will not be able to open the /dev/dsp device to play audio. You can start bzflag from the command line, and then quit. Then look right below the line where you started bzflag, if bzflag can't open the sound device, it'll tell you so. If this is the case, then find out what's open (usually, as mentioned before, some sound server like arts or esd), kill it, and try starting bzflag again.
If you have a dual-channel sound card, you can get the sound server and bzflag simultaneously playing music -- but I've never been sucessful with it.
Good luck.
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dmix
dmix is an alsa-plugin for software-downmixing. It works with the new releases of the alsa-soundserver wich I use.
So, when an app asks for /dev/dsp, another app can also use /dev/dsp although you card only supports one soundchannel ata time .... dmix will mix them together.
P.S.: this should be under the alsa-stuff I earlier wrote sorry. Can a mod move this post?? thanks. SORRY.
So, when an app asks for /dev/dsp, another app can also use /dev/dsp although you card only supports one soundchannel ata time .... dmix will mix them together.
P.S.: this should be under the alsa-stuff I earlier wrote sorry. Can a mod move this post?? thanks. SORRY.
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