Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:58:06 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UT2004 sound problem Message-ID: <20040401145806.GA89990@kayjay.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040401141639.GF6187@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <20040331171848.GA86712@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <20040331174206.GE6187@cnd.mcgill.ca> <20040401010159.GA87719@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <20040401141639.GF6187@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:16:39AM -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote: > On Mar 31, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:42:06PM -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote: > > > 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 > > > > Thanks for the quick reply! > > > > My sound devices: > > > > pcm0: <CMedia CMI8738> at io 0xa400 irq 10 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default) > > pcm1: <Avance Logic ALS4000> at io 0xa000 irq 9 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) > > > > Both sound cards have the same problem. > > > > > would suggest that you play with enabling, disabling vchans and see if > > > > I tried > > > > sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 > > sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4 > > > > but it doesn't help. I'm getting a bunch of extra > > And setting them to 0? Isn't that the default value? Anyway, I tried it and the sound is still not good. (Only one 'native_blitbuffer: select error occured') Karel.
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