Arrrg, sound stopped working in my Linux client
It WAS working, but now sound/volume shows as 'unavailable' under the options menu. AFAIK, there are no other apps using sound, I have even rebooted and gone right into the client, but still no sound. The only thing that I can remember doing recently was enabling apache and mysqld, but I can't imagine why there would be a conflict there.
I have tried "lsof | grep /dev/audio" to see if anything has it open, but nothing does.
Does anyone know what the client is checking to determine that sound is unavailable?
Sound problem on Linux
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Ah ha! I found it.
I removed my config file so that all was set back to defaults, and sound was working again.
When I swtch the GUI 'quality' option from high to medium, that's when I lose sound. Perhaps this is a bug in 10.4
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Thx for the help, orchid. I didn't know about alsa, it looks interesting, the alsa site is now bookmarked for reference
I removed my config file so that all was set back to defaults, and sound was working again.
When I swtch the GUI 'quality' option from high to medium, that's when I lose sound. Perhaps this is a bug in 10.4
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Thx for the help, orchid. I didn't know about alsa, it looks interesting, the alsa site is now bookmarked for reference
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arrrrrgl!
I take it back, sound is unavailable again. Even doing the same thing (removing the config file) doesn't fix it. And, I guess switching qualiy to medium wasn't the problem either. It's just that when I tried that the first time, that's when I lost sound. But now that it's gone again - it must be something else, something intermittant.
To bzg's question: distro=RH 9.0, kernel=2.4.20, Sound=nForce2 (on the mobo).
Sound works in other apps, just not in BZ. Downgrading to bzflag 10.2 didn't help. "lsof | grep /dev/dsp" doesn't show any other process having the device opened. I'll keep playing
I take it back, sound is unavailable again. Even doing the same thing (removing the config file) doesn't fix it. And, I guess switching qualiy to medium wasn't the problem either. It's just that when I tried that the first time, that's when I lost sound. But now that it's gone again - it must be something else, something intermittant.
To bzg's question: distro=RH 9.0, kernel=2.4.20, Sound=nForce2 (on the mobo).
Sound works in other apps, just not in BZ. Downgrading to bzflag 10.2 didn't help. "lsof | grep /dev/dsp" doesn't show any other process having the device opened. I'll keep playing
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Problem solved (twice).
esd was the problem, as well as my ignorance
Fix #1: run bzflag via esddsp, like: "esddsp bzflag". esddsp channels the sound device resources to the specified program. Thank you david_v for that suggestion.
Fix #2: compile bzflag from source instead of using the rpm binary. I guess that compiles esd support into the client. Thank you ben_l for that idea.
esd was the problem, as well as my ignorance
Fix #1: run bzflag via esddsp, like: "esddsp bzflag". esddsp channels the sound device resources to the specified program. Thank you david_v for that suggestion.
Fix #2: compile bzflag from source instead of using the rpm binary. I guess that compiles esd support into the client. Thank you ben_l for that idea.