[Alsa-user] trouble with Quake3+ALSA+debian

[James D. F. <fre...@or...>]

We have a fairly stock Debian/testing system.  Layered over this is the=20
0.9.0beta6 ALSA packages (driver,lib,utils) and Quake3 Arena.  We also=20
have a via686a sound card built on an Aopen-63k-pro motherboard.

The sound for all applications (xmms, kscd, realplay, etc.) works as=20
expected except for Quake3.  I have read about the problems with Quake=20
in this newsgroup, but I would like to ask again for current knowledge.

We receive the message that it cannot find the /dev/dsp device.  This=20
is strange because all the required modules are loaded and seem to be=20
working as they should.

Does anyone know what can be done to correct this problem? I have=20
attached the relevant configuration files.=20

Also, is 0.9.0beta6 more current than 0.5.11 ?

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a #, and everything on the line after them are ignored.
NVdriver
# for alsa-sound
soundcore
snd-card-via686a
snd-mixer-oss
snd-pcm-oss
snd-seq-oss

# /etc/modutils/sound: entry in /etc/modules.conf
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=3D116 snd_cards_limit=3D1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
options snd-card-interwave snd_index-0 snd_id=3D"82C686A"
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

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James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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