tuxracer sounds?

[dishawjp]

Hi All,

I'm trying to get the sounds for tuxracer to work.  I've found the sounds and music directories and poked my way through the /usr/share/tuxracer directory.  I've looked at the tusracer_init.tcl file, which looks like it should enable sounds, but no luck.

I do have sound for most things working, but no luck getting sound to work in tuxracer or in a few other games like chromium and xbill.

The README file does not address this issue and there is no tuxracer --help entry.

I did a Google search and this seems to be a common problem, but I didn't find any solutions posted.

Any thoughts?

Jim

[voidmain]

I didn't even notice the sound was not working until you mentioned it, of course I only played it once, but the kids play it all the time.

At any rate I found a thread on www.tuxracer.com about it and now have sound in tuxracer on Red Hat 8.0. I also happened to see a message from X11 asking the same question, guess he didn't search first. Here's how I fixed it:

# rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/smpeg-0.4.4-9.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/smpeg-devel-0.4.4-9.i386.rpm
# apt-get source tuxracer
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# rpmbuild -bb tuxracer.spec
# rpm -Uvh ../RPMS/i386/tuxracer* --force

When you try and build the new tuxracer it may require SDL development libraries. You should be able to install these with apt-get or synaptic.

[billy_gates]

you might want to try reinstalling the GLX drivers from nvidia's site.