Quake 3 and linux

[Ice-9]

Hi all,

I've run into some trouble ("again?" some of you will say)  
I managed to get Quake 3 running in Linux, it wasn't that easy but it runs.
The only glitch is that I don't have any sound at all with it.
I spent the last few days looking for an answer on every site I could find, found some things that didn't work like changing permissions on /dev/dsp and stuff like that.
Now, from reading all the posts here for quite a while I know there are a few Quakeheads here and I dare hope that, once again, you guys can help me out.
Does anyone have an idea of what could be wrong?

Since I almost never play any other game than Q3 (and occasionally Q2) my journey to a life without M$ bloatware would be a lot shorter if I could run it properly  
And of course there would have to be some support for the upcoming Doom III and Quake IV ....

[choasforages]

hmmm, had the same problem before, what kind of sound do you have.

the shitty yamaha 724/*i think*/ i had had good sound but couldn't play quake. i know have a maestro based sound card. im sure a more modern soundblaster/*my current card is not without it's problems*/ would also handle quake3

[choasforages]

hmmm, as for quake2, don't use idsoftwares install method, it's outdated. try this/*its multiplayer compatible*/

icculus's quake2 installer

this is the version of quake2 i have that loads in less then  a second, it also i think has better graphics then the original quake2, have phun

[Ice-9]

Sry, should've mentioned that.
My soundcard is a Terratec XFire 1024, recognized as  Crystalclear Soundfusion audio accelerator.

[choasforages]

hmmm, how many years old is it

[choasforages]

forgot, can you like play mp3's and other things with it

[Ice-9]

The card is like maybe 2 years old.
And I have no problem playing mp3's with it.
the only thing is, sometimes when I log in as root and then switch back to the regular user account my sound is borked and I have to reboot.

[choasforages]

hmmmm, all i have to say is that sound used to be shited on my box with the 3+ year old yamaha card, and when i put my new card in it worked. maybe someone else knows about this problem. do you have any other soundcards laying around that you could try/*probably don't, i have pills of hardware*/

[Ice-9]

Actually I have a Guillemot Muse XL lying around but it's even older than the Terratec and it slows down my pc a lot.
With the Terratec I have 215 FPS in 1024*768, 32 bit high detail, when I installed the Guillemot I only had 167 FPS with the same settings.

For the rest I use XFire 1024 in all my boxes, they're pretty decent cards.
I've been thinking about a higher-end soundcard though, something like the Terratec Six-fire, that front bay is just killing me  

[choasforages]

but did you get sound on the guilmont, and wow, 167fps is still alot faster then my box

[Ice-9]

I didn't get to try the Guillemot in Linux, as soon as I noticed the loss of performance I replaced the card with a Terratec, and at the time I didn't have Linux yet.
I you want I could send you my config files, I spent a lot of time tweaking them to get the maximum amount of frames.
We talked about our configs a lot on the XS Reality forums and I don't think somebody had a faster config than mine.
You can actually download it from my profile on the XSR site.

[badkarma]

I had some problems with my soundcard and return to castle wolfenstein ... killing artsd helped...

[Ice-9]

Already did that, didn't help.
I also read some things about people being able to play with sound as root but not as user, tried that too but even as root I don't have sound, so it's not a permission issue.

[choasforages]

hmmmm, then your soundcard is not good enough, i have a few of the same. i don't know what is with quake 3 that it doesn'tlike certian soundcards, maybe someone else would know.