Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:16:39 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl> Cc: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: UT2004 sound problem Message-ID: <20040401141639.GF6187@cnd.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040401010159.GA87719@kayjay.xs4all.nl> References: <20040331171848.GA86712@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <20040331174206.GE6187@cnd.mcgill.ca> <20040401010159.GA87719@kayjay.xs4all.nl>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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? --Mat -- (on the United States) Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and eventempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040401141639.GF6187>