On 2019-10-01 01:28, Bruno Kleinert wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 29.09.2019, 23:28 +0200 schrieb esp: > >> without the windowed mouse bug as present in Unreal Gold. The game >> however does >> >> not have sound after initial installation due to missing deb package >> osspd (OSS >> >> Proxy Daemon: Userland OSS emulation). As soon as this package gets >> installed >> >> the sound works 100% fine. Suggestion to include a osspd package >> dependency to >> >> inform user to apt install osspd. Thanks > > Hi, > > alternative, lightweighter solutions for the OSS legacy support exist > and may work, too. Let's check that! > > Do you use PulseAudio (Run "pulseaudio --check || echo 'Yep'" in a > terminal if you don't know.)? In case you do, please launch the game > from a terminal with "padsp <program>" and let us know if that works > as you would expect it! > > If you are not using PulseAudio, please install alsa-oss and launch > the game from a terminal with "aoss <program>" and let us know if that > works as you would expect it! > > If the the LD_PRELOAD wrappers work, I'd prefer to add alternative > dependencies pulseaudio-utils || alsa-oss || osspd to go from > lightweight to heavy weight dependencies. Since osspd is a daemon, > it's started during system startup and adds something to systems' boot > times. > > Cheers - Bruno
Hi Bruno Apologies for the delay in replying. First of all I am a 100% Debian user but far from a Linux expert. I apt purged osspd, rebooted my machine and tried your proposed solution: padsp /usr/games/ut99 The game boots fine but the sound does not work by using padsp. The terminal spit out following upon launching the command: ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsedsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. Unreal engine initialized Bound to SDLDrv.so Joystick [0] : Unknown Joystick SDLClient initialized. Etcetera... Do I miss something to have your solution working? I agree that we should opt for the least resource demanding solution. Thank you for you work. Highly appreciated. Regards ESP