Linux Wolfenstein Enemy Territory - no sound

[Hugo Silva]

Jakub Lach wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I recently installed from ports (games/linux-enemyterritory). 
> At first it complained about missing X11 lib, and I concluded 
> that installing linux-xorg-libs should sort it out. I wass correct 
> (perhaps it should be added as dependency?).  
>
> Running et it gives:
>
> ------- sound initialization -------
> /dev/dsp: Invalid argument
> Could not mmap /dev/dsp
> ------------------------------------
>
> Apparently, it's common problem on Linux too. Simplest 
> solution reported to be working is:
>
> echo "et.x86 0 0 direct">/proc/asound/card0/pcm1p/oss
>
> So I think something like 
>
> sysctl -w something.something="et.x86 0 0 direct"
>
> should work for me.
>
> Searching for device, I have found:
>
> sysctl -a | grep 'pcm'
> dev.emu10kx.0._pcm_front_l: 100
> dev.emu10kx.0._pcm_front_r: 100
> dev.pcm.0.%desc: EMU10Kx DSP front PCM interface
> dev.pcm.0.%driver: pcm
> dev.pcm.0.%parent: emu10kx0
> dev.pcm.0.eapd: 1
> dev.pcm.0.play.vchans: 1
> dev.pcm.0.play.vchanrate: 48000
> dev.pcm.0.play.vchanformat: s16le
> dev.pcm.0.rec.vchans: 1
> dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanrate: 48000
> dev.pcm.0.rec.vchanformat: s16le
> dev.pcm.0.buffersize: 65536
> dev.pcm.1.%desc: EMU10Kx DSP rear PCM interface
> dev.pcm.1.%driver: pcm
> dev.pcm.1.%parent: emu10kx0
> dev.pcm.1.play.vchans: 1
> dev.pcm.1.play.vchanrate: 48000
> dev.pcm.1.play.vchanformat: s16le
> dev.pcm.1.buffersize: 65536
>
> and
>
> sysctl -a | grep 'oss'
> compat.linux.oss_version: 198144
>
> However, I don't have idea what to do next.
>
> Symlinking /dev/dsp/ to /dev/dsp0.0 or /dev/dsp1.0 
> doesn't cut it.
>
> regards
>
>   


You need hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap=1

Happy frags :)

Regards,

Hugo