UT2004 sound problem

[Karel J. Bosschaart]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:16:39AM -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote:
> On Mar 31, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:42:06PM -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote:
> > > On Mar 31, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Got my UT2004 DVD yesterday :-), but I have a problem with the sound:
> > > > it plays too slow, which makes the game unplayable. This is on -stable
> > > > (as of today). Relevant messages (other lines omitted) from UT2004:
> > > > 
> > > > fcntl: No such device or address
> > > > ioctl SETFRAGMENT: Invalid argument
> > > > <snip>
> > > > native_blitbuffer: select error occured
> > > > <snip>
> > > > 
> > > > the last message occurs when exiting UT2004. The process ut2004-bin
> > > > is stuck in 'pcmsyn' state and I have to kill it. 
> > > > 
> > > > In -current (same machine) sound is OK, and I only get the 'fcntl' message.
> > > > 
> > > > The sound in both UT2003 and UT2004 demo is working well on -stable. 
> > > > Things I tried:
> > > > 
> > > > - using my second sound card: same problem.
> > > > - copying openal.so from UT2003 and UT2004 demo to UT2004: no error
> > > >   messages anymore, but also no sound.
> > > > - this obscure sequence makes the sound work properly:
> > > >   1. reboot machine
> > > >   2. start UT2004 demo, and quit after watching the intro
> > > >   3. start UT2004. Now the sound is OK... 
> > > > 
> > > > Since the game has the tendency to crash quite often (once in 2 hours or 
> > > > so), I have to do this all over again because I found no other way to
> > > > get the sound right after the game crashed.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm going to try the OSS commercial driver (it helped me often with
> > > > sound problems in Linux games) but I prefer to use the pcm driver.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	I notice that you don't mention the sound card type.  Also, I
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick reply!
> > 
> > My sound devices:
> > 
> > pcm0: <CMedia CMI8738> at io 0xa400 irq 10 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default)
> > pcm1: <Avance Logic ALS4000> at io 0xa000 irq 9 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex)
> > 
> > Both sound cards have the same problem.
> > 
> > > would suggest that you play with enabling, disabling vchans and see if
> > 
> > I tried
> > 
> > sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4
> > sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4
> > 
> > but it doesn't help. I'm getting a bunch of extra 
> 
> 	And setting them to 0?

Isn't that the default value? Anyway, I tried it and the sound is still
not good. (Only one 'native_blitbuffer: select error occured')

Karel.