- Enemy territory on gentoo with Radeon 9800XT
- Posted by Gerhard W. Gruber on January 4th, 2004
I emerged enemy territory on genott 1.4 with the most recent builds (the
installation is about three weeks old), but when I run et I only get a black
screen. No error - nothing. The last message form et is sound - initialization
and then it hangs.
Any ideas what's wrong?
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- Posted by armin walland on January 4th, 2004
Gerhard W Gruber <sparhawk@gmx.at> wrote:
seems like something is sitting on your sound card blocking it.
check with lsof |grep dsp and kill the process blocking the soundcard.
hth, armin
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- Posted by armin walland on January 4th, 2004
armin walland <geschrei@gmx.at> wrote:
<gerhard via email>
right, artsd is the kde sound daemon.
in 2 ways;
1.) tell artsd to stop blocking the sound card after any amount of
seconds (take a look at the kde control center or the artsd manpage)
2.) run applications with the artsd wrapper artsdsp
like 'artsdsp et'.
though i must warn you that this will not work with all apps and will
produce horrible lag on others. solution #1 is the better one.
my preferred daemon is esd; it performs better than artsd, realplayer
and xmms are compatible with it, and it can also be configured to free
/dev/dsp after some time (0 sec in my case 
)
hth und schoene gruesse aus wien, armin
p.s. please always also reply to the ng when you reply via mail.
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- Posted by Danny Woods on January 4th, 2004
armin walland <geschrei@gmx.at> writes:
If it is the sound card, it may not support mmap (this is the case with mine).
In this case, run it with artsdsp -m. You will probably notice a very slight
lag with the audio.
Regards,
Danny.
- Posted by Gerhard W. Gruber on January 4th, 2004
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 18:42:38 GMT wrote armin walland <geschrei@gmx.at> in
comp.os.linux.misc with <1073241757.707415@zombie>
Thanks for the explanation. Actually I'm also from Wien, but I'm living in
Germany now.
Sorry! I normaly do, this was an accident.
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Gerhard Gruber
Maintainer of
SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice
Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu
- Posted by Gerhard W. Gruber on January 4th, 2004
On 04 Jan 2004 19:34:38 +0000 wrote Danny Woods <no-mail-here@black.hole.com>
in comp.os.linux.misc with <86ad531p9t.fsf@khisanth.local>
Now, it was not that. The default is to release the card after 60 seconds and
probably in Suse it was a much lower value so I didn' t notice it there.
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Gerhard Gruber
Maintainer of
SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice
Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu
