On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 02:50:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > The problem was, that I am using NAS to network'ize my soundcard, and that > > meant doom couldn't acquire the card. Whenever I move the cursor in the > > menu, > > there is a sound, which is why it broke. > > > > There is a sndserver for NAS, and I compiled it. It seems to work ok, > > but it > > would be better if it was possible to set a variable to point to it, so you > > don't have to overwrite the original sndserver, which provides far better > > sound. > > You can edit your ~/.doomrc, and there is a line in there that lets you > configure the path to the sndserver. > > It's interesting that it crashed when it couldn't start sound. I've > succesfully run doom on a computer with no sound card, and it didn't crash.
The old a.out Doom always crashed for me without sound cards. Usually nothing so clean as a broken pipe either; it would leave the keyboard in some weird mode, as well as the console. Not too easy to fix without rebooting. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
