No audio on Ubuntu 5.10

[madmonk80]

Hi all!
First of all I'd like to thank all the developers of this wonderful opensource game! I really enjoy it!!

I play Nexuiz both on Window$ and Linux and I have to say that on linux it seems to work very much better! I get very high results concerning the graphic aspect...much more fluid and nice looking.

I use Ubuntu 5.10 distro and my only problem with Nexuiz is that It doesn't seem to be able to run my pci sound card...

My sound card is (lspci output): Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)

Here is the terminal output after I start nexuiz-linuz.sh:

^7Nexuiz Linux 13:23:10 Feb 13 2006
^7Trying to load library... "libz.so.1" - loaded.
^7Compressed files support enabled
^7Added packfile data/data20060214.pk3 (2537 files)
^7Console initialized.
^7Playing registered version.
^7Initializing client
^7Trying to load library... "libvorbis.so.0" - loaded.
^7Trying to load library... "libvorbisfile.so.3" - loaded.
^7Ogg Vorbis support enabled
^7couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
^70 demo(s) in loop
^7No demos listed with startdemos
^7Starting video system
^7Video: fullscreen 1024x768x32x60hz
^7Linked against SDL version 1.2.9
^7Using SDL library version 1.2.8
^7checking for OpenGL 1.1.0... enabled
^7GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
^7GL_RENDERER: RADEON 9600 XT Generic
^7GL_VERSION: 2.0.5642 (8.22.5)
^7GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_S3_s3tc GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow GL_ARB_fragment_shader GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shading_language_100 GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_shadow_ambient GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_blend GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_window_pos GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_ATI_element_array GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap GL_ATI_fragment_shader GL_ATI_map_object_buffer GL_ATI_separate_stencil GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_float GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_ATI_vertex_array_object GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object GL_ATI_vertex_streams GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATIX_texture_env_route GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texgen_reflection GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_vertex_shader GL_HP_occlusion_test GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_occlusion_query GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_SGI_color_matrix GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
^7SDL_EXTENSIONS:
^7Checking OpenGL extensions...
^7checking for glDrawRangeElements... enabled
^7checking for GL_ARB_multitexture... enabled
^7checking for GL_ARB_texture_env_combine... enabled
^7checking for GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3... enabled
^7checking for GL_EXT_texture3D... enabled
^7checking for GL_ARB_texture_cube_map... enabled
^7checking for GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array... enabled
^7checking for GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp... enabled
^7checking for GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic... enabled
^7checking for GL_NV_texture_shader... not detected
^7checking for GL_EXT_stencil_two_side... not detected
^7checking for GL_ARB_shader_objects... enabled
^7checking for GL_ARB_shading_language_100... enabled
^7checking for GL_ARB_vertex_shader... enabled
^7checking for GL_ARB_fragment_shader... enabled
^7checking for GL_NV_half_float... not detected
^7OpenGL Backend starting...
^7glDrawRangeElements detected (max vertices 2147483647, max indices 65535)
^7GLSL shader support detected: texture units = 8 texenv, 16 image, 8 array
^7OpenGL backend started.
^7Trying to load library... "libjpeg.so.62" - loaded.
^7JPEG support enabled
^7Trying to load library... "libpng12.so.0" - loaded.
^7PNG support enabled
^7Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/num_minus
^71 (mono) and 2 (stereo) channels supported
^7Fragment size must be a power of two
^7No available audio device
^7No available audio device
^7No available audio device
^7Failed to open the audio device!
^7S_Startup: SNDDMA_Init failed.
^7Found 1 cdrom drives.
^7No CD in drive 0.
^7CDAudio_Init: No CD in player.
^7Can't get initial CD volume
^7CD Audio Initialized
^7Draw_CachePic: failed to load gfx/m_white
^7VM_localsound: Failed to play announcer/male/welcome.ogg for menu !
^7No CD in player.
^7Client using port 0
^7Client opened a socket on address local:2
^7Client opened a socket on address 0.0.0.0:32808
^7VM_localsound: Failed to play misc/menu1.wav for menu !
^7VM_localsound: Failed to play misc/menu1.wav for menu !
^7VM_localsound: Failed to play misc/menu1.wav for menu !
^7VM_localsound: Failed to play misc/menu1.wav for menu !
^7VM_localsound: Failed to play misc/menu2.wav for menu !
^7VM_localsound: Failed to play misc/menu1.wav for menu !
^7VM_localsound: Failed to play misc/menu1.wav for menu !
^7VM_localsound: Failed to play misc/mouseclick.wav for menu !
^7OpenGL Backend shutting down

I have to say that my soundcard works great with other linux games...

Can anybody help me? What is the problem? What could I do?

Thanks!

[tChr]

try adding -sndstereo and/or -sndspeed 48000 to your startup command this is a know issue with cards that dont suport 44100 kHz sound native.

[madmonk80]

Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For others with the same problem the command that worked is:

./nexuiz-linux-686-sdl -sndstereo



How quick have you been in replying!!!

[tChr]

How quick have you been in replying!!!

ca. 2 minutes accortind to the timestams of the posts

[madmonk80]

Ok...now sound works....but I experienced too much lag!!!!!

When there was no sound I played very fluid...

I hope it's the bandwidth saturation here..I'll try again tonight...

But could it be that audio make lag???

[tChr]

Ok...now sound works....but I experienced too much lag!!!!!

When there was no sound I played very fluid...

I hope it's the bandwidth saturation here..I'll try again tonight...

But could it be that audio make lag???

Well ofcoz the audio playing takes some CPU, but I'd say you have real crappy hardware if you could notice the difference, so I'd say no; it shouldn't.. But Ill leve it to someone else to suggest things, caus I dont know

[madmonk80]

It worked good turning off all the effects, txt good, res 800x600

With Winow$ works great at 1024 and several effects on...

I guess that are Ati linux drivers that sucks...or maybe I should config something in my Ubuntu!!! but what???

[:)]

With Winow$ works great at 1024 and several effects on...

I guess that are Ati linux drivers that sucks...or maybe I should config something in my Ubuntu!!! but what???

Yes, ATI does not put as much effort into fglrx as they do in their windows drivers. I also run slower in linux than in windows, due to the disparity in the driver quality. I don't expect to see them releasing anything like Catalyst for LInux.

[esteel]

I think too it might be just because of the ati linux drivers.. to bad nvidia seems to be much better there.
But in case its not fast enough you can take a look at this post:
http://www.forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?p=90#90