Strange SDL sound problem

[Julien Langer]

Hi,

I have a strange SDL Sound problem with q2 0.16.1.
If I start Q2 I get the following message:

SDL: Audio timeout - buggy audio driver? (disabled)
audio: Bad file descriptor

However sound works if the sound quality is set to "low" in the q2
options.
But when I set sound quality to high and restart quake2, there's no
sound.
However if I switch the sound quality to low and then back again to high
sound works in high quality.
But after the next q2 restart, sound is missing again and I need to
switch to low and back again to high in order to get it working again.
This is quite annoying.

I think it's somehow related to the newer SDL Version in Debian SID
(1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007) because it worked fine some time ago.
Does anyone else see this problem and might have a solution?


Regards,
Julien

[brendanburns]

Julien,
The fact that it works on low and not on high means that SDL doesn't think your sound system supports the higher sampling/bit rate of the higher quality sounds. (Why SDL thinks this if its not true, is another problem..)

I'm running debian unstable here, but haven't updated in a while. I'll update and see what happens. If I find anything I'll let you know.

--brendan

Post by Julien Langer
Hi,
I have a strange SDL Sound problem with q2 0.16.1.
SDL: Audio timeout - buggy audio driver? (disabled)
audio: Bad file descriptor
However sound works if the sound quality is set to "low" in the q2
options.
But when I set sound quality to high and restart quake2, there's no
sound.
However if I switch the sound quality to low and then back again to high
sound works in high quality.
But after the next q2 restart, sound is missing again and I need to
switch to low and back again to high in order to get it working again.
This is quite annoying.
I think it's somehow related to the newer SDL Version in Debian SID
(1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007) because it worked fine some time ago.
Does anyone else see this problem and might have a solution?
Regards,
Julien

[Julien Langer]

Post by brendanburns
Julien,
The fact that it works on low and not on high means that SDL doesn't think your sound system supports the higher sampling/bit rate of the higher quality sounds. (Why SDL thinks this if its not true, is another problem..)
I'm running debian unstable here, but haven't updated in a while. I'll update and see what happens. If I find anything I'll let you know.
--brendan

Hi Brendan,

I removed the libsdl1.2debian-all package and installed
libsdl1.2debian-alsa instead.
Now everything works fine again. Seems like there's a problem with the
oss support of SDL.

Regards,
Julien