I don't have heretic, but with Solider of Fortune, I had to change
permissions on /dev/dsp to get sound working.
I did a chmod 666 /dev/dsp
>From a security stand point I honestly don't know if this is the best
approach or not. Before doing this check to make your users are in the audio
group, that fixed the problem for me when I had the same issue under 7.2.
Jerry
On Saturday 28 April 2001 22:52, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> I have Heretic2 from Loki. Under 7.2 I was able to play this game fine and
> had sound. Now, since installing Mandrake 8.0, I no longer have game
> sound.
>
> I have posted to the Loki games newsgroup but get no help. I have libSDL
> installed and the game recognizes this (just as with 7.2) but I get a
> message: "Couldn't open SDL audio: No available audio device"
>
> What is this? Artsd didn't used to completely monopolize my soundcard
> under 7.2. Now under 8.0, it appears to be unwilling to release the card
> for use.
>
> Anyone have 8.0 and heretic2 with properly working sound? Is there
> something I need to do to my system like make /dev/dsp read-writeable for
> users?
