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[JJ Neff]

http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/

Don't know how old the FAQ above is but I think I answered my own questions. 
ALSA is one way to serve sound but it is not EAX.  THe Environmental Audio
features of EAX are propretary to Creative and most web sites I was able to
find say that it has no support in Liux, I'm still looking.  Alsa OSS, EDS
ARTSD are sound drivers/servers.  The most common problem in games is that the
gnome esd or KDE artsd sound server holds the sound device and won't let the
game send data.  Stopping the sound server fixes that (so does using WM :-)

JJN
--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> By default, I set all my systems up with Alsa for sound now. I started
> doing it for cards that were having problems, usually with the esd sound
> daemon of Gnome not letting go of the sound card when a user would log
> out, then the next user would have no sound. Now I set up Alsa everytime
> and haven't had a problem since. You might want to give that a try. I
> usually just make a dir /usr/src/alsa and compile from there, then make
> a copy of my /etc/modules.conf file, then make the necessary changes for
> the Alsa stuff, all of which can be found for just about any sound card
> at http://www.alsa-project.org . I do it this way because if it for some
> reason doesn't work or makes no difference, I can always just copy back
> the copied /etc/modules.conf file and all would be as it was before.
> Alsa has not let me down yet. That may be all you need for the added
> functionality your looking for.
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 09:27, JJ Neff wrote:
> 
> > I almost wish I hadn't fixed my PC!
> > 
> > at around 10pm I got NWN working under Linux, had to follow the FAQs very
> > closely.  Permissions was HUGE.  But it ran and I was playing at 1024X768
> with
> > all video options enabled.  VERY fast and very cool (I have a 128MB
> GForce). 
> > Stayed up way too late running my little halfling thief around picking
> pockets
> > and getting into mischief...
> > 
> > Now I just have to get EAX sound working, anyone know if this is supported
> > under Linux?  It is an in game sound option but the in-game EAX related
> menus
> > are greyed out.  My assumption is that the game does not recognize a
> > Sounblaster Live is installed?  I have sound but it's standard 2d / 3d
> emulated
> > sound. 
> > 
> > Jumped on Efnet #nflug this morning to test my BitchX install under
> windows,
> > Hey I may have to use Windows at work but I can still feel subversive by
> using
> > BitchX  HEHE ;-)
> > 
> > Talk to ya'all later (as long as NWN doesn't kill me first.)
> > 
> > 
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> -- 
> Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> 


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