Quake2 crackling sound

[Christian Brandt]

I use Ubuntu 0606 on a intel-810 System (chipset, sound, video, etcpp,
all intel 8xx).

All my games run very nice (OpenTTD, Gnome-Games, TyrQuake1) and have no
problems with the sound, though I often have to kill the Sound-Daemon
esd. Except Quake2.

When playing Quake2 I have lots of soundproblems. With the
Ubuntu/Quakeforge-Quake2 port I have heavily stuttering sound. With the
Icculus Port I had more success - the binaries have stable sound but
very bad quality sound quality and don't display a target-cross. My own
compilation has only the sound-problem:

The sound of the sdlquake2 binary crackles a lot and has some sort of
echo with crackling. All in all not very funny. The quake2 binary has no
sound at all.

Also doing something like echo "sdlquake2 0 0 direct" >/dev/asound/...
doesn't help.

I am really not sure what to do next.

[Jay Dolan]

Post by Christian Brandt
I use Ubuntu 0606 on a intel-810 System (chipset,
sound, video, etcpp,
all intel 8xx).
All my games run very nice (OpenTTD, Gnome-Games,
TyrQuake1) and have no
problems with the sound, though I often have to kill
the Sound-Daemon
esd. Except Quake2.
When playing Quake2 I have lots of soundproblems.
With the
Ubuntu/Quakeforge-Quake2 port I have heavily
stuttering sound. With the
Icculus Port I had more success - the binaries have
stable sound but
very bad quality sound quality and don't display a
target-cross. My own
The sound of the sdlquake2 binary crackles a lot and
has some sort of
echo with crackling. All in all not very funny. The
quake2 binary has no
sound at all.
Also doing something like echo "sdlquake2 0 0
direct" >/dev/asound/...
doesn't help.
I am really not sure what to do next.

Hi,

Icculus has a slightly dated version of the Alsa sound
driver I've written for Quetoo. You could try
building that by editing the Icculus Makefile. Even
better, you could grab the latest snd_sdl.c and
snd_alsa.c from Quetoo and merge them to the Icculus
trunk. Both recieved a bit of attention a few months
ago, and are in what I would consider very good shape
right now.

Quetoo's source can be browsed here:
http://jdolan.dyndns.org/trac/browser/quetoo

Hope this helps,

Jay Dolan
Software Engineer, Systems Analyst
Windmill Cycles, Inc.
508.999.4000

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