UT2004 sound problem

[Mathew Kanner]

On Mar 31, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Got my UT2004 DVD yesterday :-), but I have a problem with the sound:
> it plays too slow, which makes the game unplayable. This is on -stable
> (as of today). Relevant messages (other lines omitted) from UT2004:
> 
> fcntl: No such device or address
> ioctl SETFRAGMENT: Invalid argument
> <snip>
> native_blitbuffer: select error occured
> <snip>
> 
> the last message occurs when exiting UT2004. The process ut2004-bin
> is stuck in 'pcmsyn' state and I have to kill it. 
> 
> In -current (same machine) sound is OK, and I only get the 'fcntl' message.
> 
> The sound in both UT2003 and UT2004 demo is working well on -stable. 
> Things I tried:
> 
> - using my second sound card: same problem.
> - copying openal.so from UT2003 and UT2004 demo to UT2004: no error
>   messages anymore, but also no sound.
> - this obscure sequence makes the sound work properly:
>   1. reboot machine
>   2. start UT2004 demo, and quit after watching the intro
>   3. start UT2004. Now the sound is OK... 
> 
> Since the game has the tendency to crash quite often (once in 2 hours or 
> so), I have to do this all over again because I found no other way to
> get the sound right after the game crashed.
> 
> I'm going to try the OSS commercial driver (it helped me often with
> sound problems in Linux games) but I prefer to use the pcm driver.


	I notice that you don't mention the sound card type.  Also, I
would suggest that you play with enabling, disabling vchans and see if
it helps.  After that, you can try some patches that are floating
around that limit the fragment size.

	--Mat

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