Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:42:06 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UT2004 sound problem Message-ID: <20040331174206.GE6187@cnd.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040331171848.GA86712@kayjay.xs4all.nl> References: <20040331171848.GA86712@kayjay.xs4all.nl>
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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 -- Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. - Chekhov
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