[Troubble] No Sound, no Servers.

(viroguitar) #1

Hi everybody!

Sorry about my English.

I’m new here in this forum. I had already installed Wolf ET on my Debian’s PC. It was too hard because I come from Windows and I yet still lost in commands and shells.

Look, I magically could install the game ( Try don’t ask me about details) and almost all was fine. But I don’t know the directory where game is located.

I ran it, for surprise I couldn’t hear anything! Next, I chose play on the main menu. Nobody was connected! No host, no server, nothing! However I made a local server using myself like a host. I could play but alone in the map. I have Internet connection by ADSL.

That’s all. May you help me please?

(BigBear) #2

Hi!

Here some links that should help you … :slight_smile:

For Servers List :

A part of solution for your multiple problems :
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php/31997-sv_master5-quot-master0-etmaster-net-quot-Patched-Clients-and-Server

Servers List obtained simply by Internet Browser :
http://et.splatterladder.com/?mod=serverlist

http://www.gametracker.com/search/et/

Some Activision’s Help concerning many WET Problems, but seems more for Windows
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php/31807-ET-Master-2012-released-!-Allround-Tool-for-Enemy-Territory

For Sound problems try to check Linux Drivers versions & possible Motherboard chipset drivers if available, and for sure Linux Settings.

Not sure really help… more Windows oriented [Can perhaps more help some other persons] :
http://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/activision.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=zBEIiQbk&p_lva=&p_li=&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_page=1&p_cv=&p_pv=2.349&p_prods=1%2C349&p_cats=&p_hidden_prods=&prod_lvl1=1&prod_lvl2=349&p_search_text=&srch_btn_submit=   Search   &p_new_search=1&p_search_type=answers.search_nl

http://www.eurobunkerarena.com/index.php?file=Forum&page=viewtopic&forum_id=4&thread_id=25

http://www.eurobunkerarena.com/index.php?file=Forum&page=viewforum&forum_id=13

(nUllSkillZ) #3

The game is located in:
/usr/local/games/enemy-territory

Mods have to be located in:
/home/USERNAME/.etwolf

Downloaded map files are located in:
/home/USERNAME/.etwolf/etmain
Or in the mod subfolder.

As server browser you can use:
XQF
Which is installable trough a package manager (apt or aptitude etc.).

For the sound problem I have installed another package.
Have to look for the name of it.

Edit:

The name of the package that might solve sound problems:
oss-compat

Edit:

As far as I remember you have to install the patches manually by copying them to /usr/local/games/enemy-territory (with root rights).

(viroguitar) #4

[QUOTE=nUllSkillZ;394666]The game is located in:
/usr/local/games/enemy-territory

Mods have to be located in:
/home/USERNAME/.etwolf

Downloaded map files are located in:
/home/USERNAME/.etwolf/etmain
Or in the mod subfolder.

As server browser you can use:
XQF
Which is installable trough a package manager (apt or aptitude etc.).

For the sound problem I have installed another package.
Have to look for the name of it.

Edit:

The name of the package that might solve sound problems:
oss-compat

[edit]
As far as I remember you have to install the patches manually by copying them to /usr/local/games/enemy-territory (with root rights).
[/edit][/QUOTE]

Thank you very much! I could resolve sound problem by using your tip. However I installed the xqf server and ran the game. The main play online interface still empty, I couldn’t choose any server to play because there’s nothing. I tried changing some features on the top of that menu. Nothing happened.

Maybe Do I have to apply or start the xqf server browser ? Anyway, How?

Thanks for answer. :slight_smile:

(BigBear) #5

Hi!

Why do not you try to use that update the Client Linux version I have spoken in my previous post ? :
(think to rename the existing file for having a backup of that old file before to upload the new one : if you want to restore back the old file version)
http://www.eurobunkerarena.com/downloads/LinuxClientMasterPatch.zip

You can find the same link here in this other post :
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php/31997-sv_master5-quot-master0-etmaster-net-quot-Patched-Clients-and-Server

:slight_smile:

(DBan) #6

I also am having a no sound / no servers problem. I receive this error.


------- sound initialization -------
/dev/dsp: No such file or directory
Could not open /dev/dsp
------------------------------------

I installed the oss-compat package, which did nothing for the problem. I then installed the alsa-oss package to see if that might fix the problem. Running

$ aoss et

got me this error instead.


------- sound initialization -------
/dev/dsp: Invalid argument
Could not mmap /dev/dsp
------------------------------------

As for the servers, I downloaded the file Master Patch suggested by BigBear, however, whenever I tried to run it I got a permission denied error, whether I was root or not. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
DBan

(tangram) #7

For sound on Debian you can follow the steps here:
http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.pt/2009/04/howto-enemy-territory-on-debian-linux.htmll

Also you can have a look at:
http://wiki.debian.org/Games/WolfensteinEnemyTerritory

As for the server list, run the following command:

echo “91.220.53.73 etmaster.idsoftware.com” >> /etc/hosts

As a bonus, if you want to setup custom widescreen resolution (such as 1440x900) on any operating system:

(tangram) #8

I’d really like to know why my previous post was deleted.

ET uses Linux’s OSS sound infrastructure. If you don’t have sound here’s how to enable the needed kernel module at boot time:
$ su

echo “snd_pcm_oss” >> /etc/modules

modprobe snd_pcm_oss

These commands worked fine for Debian 5 and as such should also work for Debian 6.

Other methods to have sound working on Debian can be found at their wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/WolfensteinEnemyTerritory.

As for the empty master list, the simplest method to have it working is:
$ su

echo “91.220.53.73 etmaster.idsoftware.com” >> /etc/hosts

This is described at http://etmaster.net.

How to enable ET sound on Debian, Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD, how to use widescreen resolutions on ET, and other related ET stuff can be found at http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.pt/search/label/Enemy%20Territory.

Let’s just open that this post doesn’t get deleted…