Lee Revell schrieb: >On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:23 +0100, tommy wrote: > > >>so what to do if u have a cheap onboard sound (nForce board) that has no >>hardware mixing capabilities? >> >>looks like the following: >>1) try to get TS work with aoss. >>2) give up. search the internet. try artsdsp. >>3) download openal-source via cvs >>4) download a patch for openal to use it with ut2004 >>5) recompile openal with alsa support (need to install libasound2-dev >>packags before ...) >>6) copy the library to ut2004 directory >>7) make an .asoundrc file that allows dmixing for artsd and ut2004, and >>audio input for artsd >>8) modify TS startup script so that it will start artsd if not already >>running, and LD_PRELAOD artsdsp libraries. >>optional: >>9) feel pisssed of about all (arts(dsp) adds some noticable lag to >>audio!) that and get an audigy2 >> >> > >Or: > >1) get a real sound card - this is what many Windows users in your >situation do > > > Windows users don't come to this situation. the install windows, install their soundcard drivers, install ts, install ut2004, and thats it- if a windows user gets a "real" soundcard, then due to other reasons, eg. the onboard sound sucks, or he wants to get some extra fps. btw: see step 9) >Or: > >1) complain to the authors of TeamSpeak and UT2004 that they should not >be using a deprecated API, they should use the ALSA API > > >Or: > >1) get nvidia to release some docs on the nforce2. Support for this is >completely reverse engineered, they refuse to release ANY docs. For all >we know this card does do hardware mixing, but we can't support it for >lack of docs. > > yes, hehe. it would be good if they (TeamSpeak !) would switch to alsa- and in fact they are pretending taht they work on TS3 with alsa support, but until then, no chance. And i guess this will still take some time. a word on the nForce chipset: 1) the original nForce has an DSP built in 2) the nForce 2 with MCP-T southbridge has DSP built in, the MCP doesn't 3) AFAIK, nForce 3 and nForce 4 also lack the DSP but thats not the point. i bought that audigy2, and its a good soundcard, apart from a few issues that will be fixed sooner or later. but what i wanted to say was the following: it's not easy to use for someone thats new to linux- in fact, once i succeeded to convince someone to give linux a try- but he could not get this to work with just 2 mouseclicks. So he switched back to windows :( Thats the point ... if linux should become a desktop alternative, then we definitely need such an `Common linux audio layer`. but: less linux gamers, less games ported to linux :'( there is the ut series, and all stuff from id. but no halflife 2 btw. this was meant as an reply to Dubphil. -tom >Lee > > > > >
