meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
> Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> [12-02-18 16:52]:
> > I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff
> > (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not
> > being used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run
> > games-fps/quake3-bin instead. I have no sound.
> >
> > There are error messages:
> >
> > /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> > Could not open /dev/dsp
> >
> > This is true, even as root I cannot echo something to this device.
> > lsof and fuser return nothing, so I wonder what is using the device.
> >
> > I had sound problems with Quake3 in the past, and found a wrapper
> > script quake3-sdl-sound [*], that worked. But now it doesn't.
> >
> > Any ideas? There will be a big match going on with my little sister
> > this evening, so you see this is a really really important issue!
I just found a workaround: It seems games-fps/quake3 looks for stuff
in /usr/share/games/quake3 only. I made this a symlink to /opt/quake3,
and now all the custom maps and models are found. But still I would like
t know how to make such applications work again.
> Hi Alex,
>
> try (as root)
>
> fuser /dev/dsp
>
> to figure out, which task helds that device...
I get no output at all.
Wonko
