I'm so excited Halflife is working w/winex, but no sound

[urinal cake]

Mandrake 8.1 My soundcard is SB512PCI, I am using the arts soundserver, which, I guess installs by default (did for me anyway). My sound works fine, and the HL installer even played the .wav file correctly. I have sound in the HL main menu, but once I start a game, there's no sound at all. Even after I quit HL, no sound in linux for the user who ran HL. If I log out and back in as root, I have sound. Back to user who ran HL, no sound again. Any ideas? I want to play TFC under linux so badly, then I won't have to use Windows hardly at all.

[Morph]

first guess is that its a permissions problem. do

ls -l /dev/dsp

[bwkaz]

Or rather, since Mandrake 8.1 uses devfs, do

ls -l /dev/sound/dsp

[urinal cake]

Thanks. I didn't have execute permissions on the dsp file. Turns out, once I restarted, HL wouldn't run, anyway. I'm going to try again, though. It's exciting to get sooooo close. I've been really discouraged and confused, but damn, I'm actually making progress!

[bwkaz]

You don't need execute permission to play sounds, only write permission. Read permission lets you record stuff. It looks like the permissions are right.

After it stops playing, does the menu still work (sound-wise, that is)? If not, what are the permissions then? If they're not rw-rw-rw- that might be it.

[ 25 January 2002: Message edited by: bwkaz ]

[urinal cake]

Thank you morph & bwkaz! Looks like it was a permissions thing. changed /dev/sound/dsp to rw-rw-rw- and it runs without a hitch now. I am so happy. Now if TFC works, I'll be delirious. The only games I play are Q3, RTCW and TFC. As you know, the first two run in their full linux-native glory. If I can get TFC working under winex, I'll be spending 1/10 the time in Windows, if that. Thanks again. I'll try TFC tomorrow..enough for tonite.

[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: urinal cake ]