GhodMode

This is really a Linux/ALSA question... maybe... ... okay, that's my question: Who should I ask about this? ... This question is not really directly related to the game. So, I understand if no one wants to post an answer. However, any answers or insight, or even guesses, will be greatly appreciated. I can't get sound to work with Eternal Lands. It works for all other apps that I use, but it's not the game's fault. I'm just hoping someone here will have greater insight than I do. SuSE Linux 10.0 openal v. 20050801 alsa v. 1.0.10 Here's the error message I get when I start el: So, it looks like it's an error on line 2038 of pcm.c that should be in the source code for ALSA. Is it using a variable that isn't defined? Isn't there supposed to be a filename where it currently says "(null)"? Like I said, it's not your problem, but maybe you're feeling kind I use either YaST or Apt for RPM for most of my software updates. I've read K&R. I can read C, but that's not exactly the same as being a programmer. I downloaded (all 39Mb of) the ALSA source and line 2038 of pcm.c in the alsa-lib source is a closing bracket for a conditional block. The block doesn't have any references to snd_pcm_open_conf, but I searched some more and found that that's the name of a function. In the function definition, I can find the error message: Now I'm at my dead end. I know that this is kind of technical and there are only a handful of people who know what I'm talking about... and I'm not one of them , but I'm willing to do the work to figure out the problem if someone can point me in the right direction. Thank you, -- Ghodmode

How do I eat?... I have some raw meat, and I've tried double right-clicking on it, but it doesn't work. How do I cook it?... No... the games down, I'm talking about real life... I forgot how to eat real food... Is the game back up yet? I'm hungry and I don't know how to eat here.

Could someone please post Entropy's real name and home & mobile phone numbers here so that we could call him to ask about the status of the server?

Let's see... 20 minutes ago Ent did a restart to add debugging code "just in case there's another crash"...

My sound is working ... just in case anyone's curious... At some point, I had installed the eternallands package from the Dries apt-get RPM repository. I didn't like the way it installed, so I removed it right away and went back to playing the copy I had downloaded from the EL web site. The only problem was that it left a directory in my home directory named .elc. The .elc directory contains configuration files, including el.ini. Apparently the el.ini file in ~/.elc overrides the one in the EL installation directory. The default el.ini file has the sounds turned off. So, my sound was turned off. As far as I know, ~/.elc is not documented anywhere. I found out about it by running EL with ltrace. Now all of the other changes that I've made to that config file work, too . I thought they didn't work because they weren't implemented yet Regards, GM

Still no luck Sound works in all other applications (xmms too) I've never had a .openalrc in my home directory before, but I put one there now, just in case. I can't find any decent documentation, but here's what I put in there To me it looks like I have an opening single-quote without a closing one, but I found it like that on more than one page, so I left it like that. Of course, if I wanted to write an application using the OpenAL libraries, the specification is well documented at openal.org, but it didn't look like that would help me in this case. I did rpm -ql openal and found that it only put a few files there. They looked like libraries to me, so I added them to LD_LIBRARY_PATH like this: I know that /usr/lib is probably a default location that it will look anyway, but I thought it was worth a try. In el.ini there is a line that says I don't think that was like that originally. I think that it was set to 1 by default and I changed it to 0 to get the sound working when I first installed it. I've checked all my sound settings and nothing is turned all the way down. Everything's all the way up except for main. I've re-installed the kernel and alsa modules that I had previously removed, then booted with them. Any other ideas? Thank you, GM

What are the sound requirements for running EL on Linux? I had sound and now I don't. This is probably my fault. I've installed a new kernel and removed the old kernel since the last time I played. I think there were a buncha ALSA dependencies with that older kernel that I removed, too. I'm using Fedora Core 2, Kernel 2.6.7.494. I'm using apt-get along with Synaptic for the updates. Thanks, GM