Re: [liquidwar-user] KDE, ALSA, and sound

[lw . 10 . judebert]

Thanks, David.

I finally got sound -- but only when I wasn't using KDE.  In Gnome, 
where I don't start up esd, Liquid War at least gave me wav sounds.  
(I'm still installing MIDI, specifically for LW.)

Still, I use KDE most often, and the allegro tools do work from KDE.  
I'm running Debian Sid, and Synaptic tells me I've got liballegro4.1 
installed at version 2:4.1.15-4.  Of course, it also says I've got 
liballegro4a version 2:4.0.3-14 installed, too.  I wonder which one it 
chooses, and how I could tell?

If I can help you find anything else, just ask.

Thanks,
Jude

David Redick - address@hidden wrote:

> I had a similar problem on my systems.  I fixed it but I can't remember
> what I did.
>
> I seem to remember the root cause is Allegro and ALSA not playing well
> together.
> Have you tried Allegro 4.1.15?  Its a work in progress (aka testing) but
> it should work.
> http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
>
> But then again you said the Allegro demo sounds work correctly.
> Hmm.. I'll have to play around with it.
>
>
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> Subject: [liquidwar-user] KDE, ALSA, and sound
>
> I can't seem to get *any* sound with Liquid War 5.6.2 on my Debian 2.6.6
> (sid/unstable) system with nForce chipset and Allegro version 4.0.3
> Unix.  I'm running under KDE 3.3.0, with aRts configured to output via
> ALSA to my "nforce" device instead of the default device (although they
> are identical).  XMMS plays correctly with the OSS or ALSA outputs;
> Kaboodle plays properly; Xine works with the aRts output. 
>
> When LW starts, it says:
>
> Installing sound (digi="aRts", midi="DIGMID") - success!
>
> Since this is Debian, I also get:
>
> liquidwar: built with a non-Debian (or old) Allegro, running glue code
> liquidwar: everything went fine
>
> It even claims to have loaded the sound fx.  No sound. 
>
> I tried changing ~/.allegrorc, specifying ALSA drivers; LW ignored it.  
> (This was before I installed liballegro-plugin-arts; until then, it had
> claimed digi="Open Source Sound".)  I also specified XWIN and XDGA
> drivers, which LW also cheerfully ignored.  The Allegro testing stuff
> seems to understand.  At least, the allegro-demo worked, sound and all.
>
> So what am I missing?  Liquid War is the one game I can play with *all*
> my kids, even across Windows/Linux computers.  We love it.  We'd love it
> even more if we could hear it on the Linux computer.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jude
>
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