Hi, is there an error regarding sound when you start the game? I would think it's probably more likely that the sound daemon is tied up by esd or something. look for errors like '/dev/dsp: resource busy'... if that's the problem you could try installing the libsdl-esd package.
good luck, Cameron Matheson On 6/24/05, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I've got a bit of a problem with sound on my system. It works in > most applications but not all. As it was Friday I decided to install a > few games and oddly enough sound doesn't work in any I have tried so far > for instance NeverBall and TuxRacer. Now I think the problem might be > that they are trying to use OSS where as I (think at least) am using > alsa. I have installed also-oss as it looked like it might make things > work but no joy. I have included the results of lsmod below if that > helps. Any ideas what might be wrong? Sound is one of those areas that > just seems to be a black art to me. > > TIA, Graham > > lsmod | grep snd > snd_intel8x0 35456 4 > snd_ac97_codec 82384 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_ioctl32 28096 0 > snd_pcm_oss 55968 0 > snd_mixer_oss 19520 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm 95372 5 > snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ioctl32,snd_pcm_oss > snd_timer 25160 2 snd_pcm > snd 57256 13 > snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ioctl32,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer > soundcore 11232 1 snd > snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm > > System Spec > Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI > Video: Gigabyte GV-NX66T128VP > Sound: On Board (8 Point Surround) AC97 Compatible > Network: On Board (2 * Gigabit Ethernet, 1 * Wireless) > Processor: AMD Athlon64 939 3000+ "Venice" > Memory: 2 * Corsair XMS 512MB PC3200 C2 > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >