[Sussex] Enemy Territory and ALSA

[Alan J Fitton]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:

> All,
>
> I've googled and search high and low for the solution to this, but I
> can't seem to get it to work.  When ever I fire up Enemy Territory, it
> says:
>
> ------- sound initialization -------
> /dev/dsp: Invalid argument
> Could not open /dev/dsp
> ------------------------------------
> Sound memory manager started
> Sys_LoadDll(/home/mwallace/.etwolf/etmain/ui.mp.i386.so)...
> Sys_LoadDll(/home/mwallace/.etwolf/etmain/ui.mp.i386.so) failed:
> "/home/mwallace/.etwolf/etmain/ui.mp.i386.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory"
> Sys_LoadDll(/opt/enemy-territory/etmain/ui.mp.i386.so)... ok
> Sys_LoadDll(ui) found **vmMain** at  0x4a751bfc
> Sys_LoadDll(ui) succeeded!
>
/dev/dsp is the sound device for OSS (not ALSA, if I'm thinking right).
Looks like Enemy Teritory is not ALSA capable, but there are OSS emulation
modules for ALSA which you could try loading.

Hope this helps,
Alan