Hiya
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well I actually have toothache from a wisom (More of a dumb tooth with the way things went earlier lol point is Im as well on the comp !)tooth so I have stayed up half the night and I got the sound working
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, nothing was wrong with my config and nothing was wrong with th e svn , heck I didnt get a single compile error from it. Basically the alsa init script was set to load the desired driver and emulatation modules yet when I was doing lsmod they were comming out botched to how I had set them up then one minute they things would work for alsa but there would be no /dev/dsp for oss , the next min oss would work but alsa couldnt open the default device then other times it would be fine , things would work for a bit then just lots of subtle and infuruating things would happen, after checking the modules and guides LOTS my config was fine , and I thought what if this udev was mashing some of the modules from how I want them to load, anyway I re-installed it, no differance , next I unmerged it and got a big warning but i thought what the heck this gentoo install is buggy Im prepared to start from scratch. Anyway I restarted , without udev and everything worked, well sound was crazy and not working so I emerged udev with 98% the system working, anyway now both OSS & Alsa works np + I start the game and I get perfect sound
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)))))) no need to go through oss!
I used gentoo a good while back(I came on this site back then as well and installed a vega game np at all) and to be honest this time around Ive found it[gentoo] to be very buggy , In all fairness though Im running a reasnably high end rig on gentoo, a amd64 in 32 bit - dual core , raid - stripping ----pci express (2 cards but just running in single gpu mode with 1 card) and an onboard nforce 4 rt hda card so quite an evil setup for drivers!
Just a warning for others with gentoo theres alot of niggly little bugs that havent hit the forums yet, I also notice things like clicking a hyperlink in a browser page doesnt make a click sound (Yeah thats trivial but things like that can potentially be misleading and come from a bigger problem - I just hope gentoo aint letting unstable stuff on the portage tree now for the sake of becomming bigger I mean , it used to be the case if somethings on the portage stable tree its got a very good chance its gonna be running a long time -- I have another machine in my house up stairs and its had gentoo on it 2 years approx I believe and its never been re-installed) Still In gentoos favor I credit the successful source build to primarily good code on you folks part and secondary the fact that portage scripts are good and install all the libraries where they can be seen and link them in a universal way that helps packages cooperating(thats why I will put up with this as I am certain they will get things like they were and as a developer, small time! - , i have enough to think about fixing bugs in my own packages without having to get a masters degree in different versioning schemes and linking schemes , enviroment vars etc etc - the amount of dependencies heck you would be talking about total expertise and many fields eek! where open source is concerned, thats why portage I cant see past it hehe , more conducive to learning in chunks and not getting forced on wild detours from your goal)
Yeah I think I need to read up on udev as its caused me a knightmare tonight , What worries me is after running alconf it says couldn't update modules.conf, now I do update-modules to do that but Im afraid to in case I lose the games stability owing to the way gentoos handling some of the higher end hardware
Apologies for the big post , I just figured hopefully anyone on gentoo who hits the same problem will at least have an idea broadly what could cause it and maybe some of the post can save even a tiny bit of time!
See when the sound works well , Its like a differant game ) actually surprising by how much, the beta version as well you folks seem to have made it more clearer nice job!