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[Chris]

Chris
yay! with -nomusic it worked like magic.
now if only music could be fixed...

The problem isn't really the music. For some reason, your system is just having trouble with file pipes. Music works 100% for me and others.

btw, speaking of Jim's patch - i couldn't apply it, patch complained about a malformed line or such..

Hmm.. I tried it and got the same error, too. Just stick with my patch, then. It works fine.

i agree. imho using linux sux mostly because to get a simple thing working, sometimes one has to do some dark mojo, and not to mention the time wasted researching and figuring out. unless one has already done that before..

(back to zdoom) i think someone (if not randy) should make a page that explains how to get it done, links to the latest source, patches, prerequisites, HOWTO compile and use that stuff, gotchas, troubleshooting - all in one piece..

The problem is, Randy hasn't reinstalled Linux on his machine since he did whatever (upgraded it or changed it or something). You can't really blame him for not fully supporting something he can't test and try himself.

[zloba]

The problem isn't really the music. For some reason, your system is just having trouble with file pipes. Music works 100% for me and others.

music workes fine in old zdoom 1.22.
pipes - any idea how that can be? how to diagnose it maybe?

what kernel are you using? mine is 2.6.9, maybe it's kernel's fault.

can't really blame him for not fully supporting something he can't test and try himself.

who said i blame him? nope.

[Chris]

pipes - any idea how that can be? how to diagnose it maybe?

Try this:

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mkfifo --mode644 tmp.tmp
echo "hola" > tmp.tmp & cat tmp.tmp

If it works, you should see something like:

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$ echo "hola" > tmp.tmp & cat tmp.tmp
[1] 10930
hola
[1]+  Done                    echo "hola" >tmp.tmp

I'm using 2.4.26-gentoo-sources and running 'ulimit -a | grep pipe' shows:

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pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8

[zloba]

If it works, you should see something like:

i see exactly that. and pipe size.

[zloba]

Chris
what are the requirements for sound card or any other kernel features?

it freezes when it tries to play a sound.
it spawns several processes, killing the last one unlocks it, so the game proceeds without sound.

[Chris]

Last I tried, FMOD was having problems using ALSA, so try making it use OSS. Run with "-snd_output oss". You can even try to see if music will work with that. Other than that, you shouldn't need anything special.

[QBasicer]

OSS is dead. OSS emulation only half works on my box, for example, XMMS with OSS works, however Doom3 does not.

Go figure.

My sequencer does not work... at all... in Linux. I have not had the time to try this version out, but I look forward to disecting the code.

[Chris]

OSS isn't dead. Not until the ALSA team can get their act together and write proper docs for how to use ALSA.

True story.. someone wrote an ALSA driver that worked perfectly on their system, but on another's caused horrible lag. The other person fixed it so it worked perfectly on their system, but that caused the original coder's system to lag horribly.

And I haven't heard of one system yet that has ALSA MIDI working. Just use Timidity anyway.. you should be able to set that up as a MIDI driver, I think.

[QBasicer]

It doesn't work to well on my System...

And Timidity is broke, I upgraded and it just stopped working. I'm so upset.

[ducon]

XMMS with OSS works, however Doom3 does not.

False, I still use OSS and all my programs work with it, Doom³ and XMMS.

[wildweasel]

See, that's the thing with Linux: your mileage will vary.

A while back, my brother got version 8 of Mandrake Linux and installed that, except it came with no sound whatsoever (apparently it tried to set ALSA up by default and it didn't work for him), and he had to wrestle with the internet to get it working. Then I tried Topologi for Windows, one of those "self-contained" distros. Internet wouldn't work for anything, but sound was perfect. Then there was a Knoppix Live-On-CD that I tried for the heck of it - everything worked, but saving settings was a chore. Now we've got Red Hat 9 running on an old 400 MHz - it works fine, but is slow on occasion.

[Csonicgo]

I've no problem with knoppix yet...

[zloba]

Run with "-snd_output oss".

did. no luck. i even built oss kernel modules - same story. oh well.

[Chris]

My mistake.. it's "+snd_output oss".

[zloba]

yay! it freaking works!!!

well, almost. i have to switch to text and kill -KILL the last process of zdoomdbg each time upon entering and completing a level. i assume that's the one that tries to play midi..
the motion is kinda jerky though, and monsters are like on steroids ( =a lot faster). a somewhat different notion of time?