half-life voice

[Gaccm]

well, I'm not sure when, i just tried it now, but voice works in Half-life! Before it would almost mute everything if turned voice on, but now it's all spiffy! My Q is does anyone know how to get a mic to work for hl?

[Icarus]

Do you mean works as in you can hear them talking? I've always heard them talking, I know getting it to work so you can use it in Linux didn't quite work...but that's fine with me, the less 13 year old dorks and 26 year old stoners I hear the better :D

[Gaccm]

basicly for me anything made in 2002+ wine (not winex) forced me to disable all voice (voice_modenable 0) for me to here anything. Now I can enable voice and listen to all those kids/hicks and still here the game sound. What I'm hoping to do now is be able to use my mic to talk to other people. When I go into hl and join a game, the last lines on the console it outputs before i'm in the game are: it first tries DirectSound and then tries WaveInput then it gives up and says device is in use.

Can wine(x) record stuff on a mic? like if I copy over MS sound recorder could it work?

[vbp6us]

Sorry for the change of topic...sort of. I cant wait to get linux on my new computer and get wine(x) to work. Which one is easier and better? Wine or Winex ? whats the difference>?

less 13 year old dorks and 26 year old stoners I hear the better

So true. Lol.

[evulish]

Originally posted by vbp6us
Sorry for the change of topic...sort of. I cant wait to get linux on my new computer and get wine(x) to work. Which one is easier and better? Wine or Winex ? whats the difference>?


Here's the simple answer: Wine and WineX install about the same. I believe WineX is a bit bigger. To install, you just download it and compile it (then configure it). WineX is probably a tad bit better...it's built of WineX and is made by a company rather than a group. WineX has more support for games and the likes. Also, if you get the precompiled packages of WineX, you pay a subscription fee...the free version is basically a testing version so it doesn't always work.

[Icarus]

evulish is talking about www.transgaming.com
WineX was 'forked' off the Wine tree last year and have been mostly devloping independently, but still giving code back to the Wine tree. WineX has a DirectX compatability layer that is not found in normal Wine (www.winehq.org or www.codeweavers.com) so it is 'more likely' to be able to run DirectX applications (games) where the normal Wine has no chance if the app relies on DirectX.

I find that the CVS of WineX is fairly easy to install and get going, the README in it has very good step-by-step instructions to compile, install and use (it also has a good script that does 90% of the work for you ;))

[vbp6us]

Is www.winehq.com winex or wine? I know its not transgaming. That you have to pay for and im not about to do that. Where is the "free" and easy Winex site?

thanks.

[Icarus]

Well, I found it to be easy ;)

www.transgaming.com -> Download -> CVS Tree -> Read the licesnse ;) -> I AGREE -> follow directions at the bottom.

or for the lazy that just "want it now" and don't give a rip about legal stuff :)

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login
Hit Enter when prompted for a password
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex co wine

Then as root cd to the wine directory and type...
[you@home wine] # more README

then you will find this bit almost right away...

2. QUICK START

Whenever you compile from source, it is recommended to use the Wine
Installer to build and install Wine. From the top-level directory
of the Wine source (which contains this file), run:

./tools/wineinstall