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shuzi
04-11-2003, 02:55 AM
i'm not getting any sound in Tux Racer!

Does that game have sound?

Also, how can i improve the graphics in the game? like resolution etc.?? is that possible?
shuzi
04-11-2003, 03:08 AM
i also tried the following...but got a funny error:

root@localhost root]# .tuxracer/options
bash: .tuxracer/options: Permission denied
bwkaz
04-11-2003, 09:28 AM
You need to open an editor on ~/.tuxracer/options, not execute ~/.tuxracer/options on its own. As for your sound issue, are you getting any relevant errors logged to the terminal that you're running tuxracer from?
shuzi
04-11-2003, 02:54 PM
Originally posted by bwkaz
You need to open an editor on ~/.tuxracer/options, not execute ~/.tuxracer/options on its own. As for your sound issue, are you getting any relevant errors logged to the terminal that you're running tuxracer from?

Nope...no errors at all!
Hayl
04-11-2003, 02:57 PM
are you running tux racer from the CLI or from an icon/menu shortcut ?
shuzi
04-11-2003, 03:04 PM
Originally posted by Hayl
are you running tux racer from the CLI or from an icon/menu shortcut ?

CLI.

installed tux (single rpm) from Redhat 8.0 (disc 2)
NecroLin
04-15-2003, 12:44 AM
A) Yes the game does have sound.
B) RHat 8 & 9 have given me the same problem...no sound. Not sure how to fix this though...
:mad:
Vm.
04-15-2003, 02:27 PM
I've got the same problem. I am using Red Hat 9 right now, but I also had the same problem with 8.0. However the game worked fine with Red Hat 7.3.

To add to the problem, the game lags very much even with my new and elite hardware (p4 2.40 ghz, 512 mb ram, GeForce4 mx 440, blah blah...). H'm... I suppose the game needs some tuning.
shuzi
04-15-2003, 04:26 PM
Originally posted by Vm.

To add to the problem, the game lags very much even with my new and elite hardware (p4 2.40 ghz, 512 mb ram, GeForce4 mx 440, blah blah...). H'm... I suppose the game needs some tuning.

its your display drivers. DON'T use the ones that come default with linux. download the new ones from www.nvidia.com
Slovak
04-15-2003, 09:50 PM
I also have no sound, RH 9.0, and no errors either :confused:
shuzi
04-16-2003, 05:58 AM
The developers of Tux Racer should be notified about this!

have u guys tried to download and install the game from their official site rather than using the one that came with linux??
Slovak
04-16-2003, 08:06 AM
Not yet, but I might just try that today.
NecroLin
04-16-2003, 08:12 AM
Shuzi:
"its your display drivers. DON'T use the ones that come default with linux. download the new ones from"

As far as 3D acceleration yes. But, I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, 3D is good, but still no sound. I'm going to get a download of the game from some place other than RedHat & see if that helps. Maybe the RedHat RPM is missing something?
shuzi
04-16-2003, 03:36 PM
Originally posted by NecroLin
I'm going to get a download of the game from some place other than RedHat & see if that helps. Maybe the RedHat RPM is missing something?

well if the game downloaded from somewhere else, works...then we know! keep us posted....
Vm.
04-20-2003, 06:48 PM
I installed the latest NVIDIA drivers. That fixed the graphics acceleration problems. I am still looking for a way to get the sound working. If you find it before I do, please do post about it.
shuzi
04-21-2003, 04:54 AM
well on the redhat cd there is just one rpm while i have seen on this other place which consists of two tar.gz files. one is tuxracer and the other one is tuxracerdata. possibly redhat combined the two..but something tells me tuxracerdata contains the sound files. i tried to install them but i got an SDL error due to which it said that the game will run without sound and joystick support. hmmm...so maybe SDL has something to do with it...also check out their site for the files instead of the one with Redhat....