🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:55:22 -0700, dss_store@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hey, there
> 
>    I am trying to install a quake 2 version 3.20 on my redhat 9.0. 
> With the instructions of Linux Quake HowTo: Quake 2,  everything seems
> doing well.  But when I type in: ./quake2 +set vid_ref softx, it quits
> after giving me:
> 
> ------- sound initialization -------
> Cmd_AddCommand: play already defined
> Cmd_AddCommand: stopsound already defined
> Cmd_AddCommand: soundlist already defined
> Cmd_AddCommand: soundinfo already defined
> /dev/dsp: Bad address
> Could not reset /dev/dsp
> XIO:  fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 50 requests (50 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> 
> It seems like a soundcard problem, but actually my soundcard works and
> could play music.  That looks really weird.  By the way, there is no
> problem if I run it as a dedicated server and I also tested my machine
> with 3.14 demo(no sound) and it ran well.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> 
> ~shane

IIRC Quake wants OSS and if you have only ALSA it won't go, so check
the snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss modules are going (lsmod).