From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 08:33:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA07109 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 08:33:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synxcti.com (bruce@synxcti.com [152.52.122.195]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA07104 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 08:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bruce@localhost) by synxcti.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA19584; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:25:10 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: synxcti.com: bruce owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:25:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Drake To: jlambert@trout.inet-images.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xwindows In-Reply-To: <199608070333.XAA02810@trout.inet-images.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 jlambert@trout.inet-images.com wrote: > I am treying to run linux xdoom and it runs, tbutbut after awhile, > it says broken pipe. > that's what's wrong? Regardless of whether you run sdoom or xdoom, it is looking for a program that is running the sound. If you don't have a Linux-compatible sound device configured, the sound program fails. The main executable for doom keeps sending requests to the sound program, but eventually fails. I fixed this on my system by renaming the sound program! The startup can't find the executable, but continues to run the game silently. Check the directory /usr/games/doom. You will probably find the file called sndserver. Rename it to sndserver.save, and see what happens. Hopefully, this will work for you. For the curious, this makes xdoom run across a network onto an ordinary X-terminal! Disgusting :-) ------------------ Bruce Drake Synectics, Inc. (919) 872-1275 USA