No sound on linux 64bit

[MarioMaster100]

I'm running a debian based distro with debian testing repos 64bit and the game works but I have no sound coming from the game at all. Is there a way to fix that?

[PranQster]

Check these settings in your darkmod.cfg file (no guarantee these will work for you):

seta s_dsp "/dev/dsp0"
seta s_driver "best"
seta s_alsa_lib "libasound.so.2"

Also I have the following:

seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"
seta s_alsa_pcm "front:CARD=halo,DEV=0"

That last part is specific to the audio card. Use 'aplay -l' to list the audio devices and fill in the names for 'CARD=' and 'DEV=' accordingly.

Also, the numberofspeakers value also depends on whether you have chosen stereo or surround device...an 5.1 surround has 6 speakers including center & subwoofer.

 

Also, if your debian system uses pulseaudio and phonon, install the 'phonon-vlc' backend and use that instead of 'phonon-gstreamer'.

Edited January 3, 2014 by PranQster

[MarioMaster100]

I'm still kind of unsure what to put for that last part, I'm using the laptop's built in speakers.

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I have phonon, phonon-backend-gstreamer, and phonon-backend-vlc installed, I think I needed all of those for something I use.

[PranQster]

That looks like it would be something like this:

seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"

seta s_alsa_pcm "front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0"

Edited January 4, 2014 by PranQster

[PranQster]

If you use KDE, then run systemsettings and go to hardware > phonon/multimedia/audio/video-settings (wording has changed throughout the years)...then > "Backend" tab. Move phonon-vlc to the top of the list, apply and log out-in again.

[MarioMaster100]

I'm not using KDE and still no sound after adding the lines to the config file :/

[kriebz]

You should have multi-arch enabled. I think this is the default for a while now. Just install the libraries you need like `apt-get install packagename:i386`. It doesn't matter that you probably have the x64 version of the library installed, you need to get the 32-bit version, and they'll both live happily together on the system, not conflict, and both will get upgrades when you upgrade.

 

I think I needed to install zlib1g for uncompressing the pk4s right off the bat, and then to fix sound, libasound2 and libasound2-plugins. Just watch the output in the terminal you launch ./thedarkmod.x86 from (launch the game, then quit and scroll through what's in the terminal window). If you can't guess what package owns a file named in the error message, install the apt-file package.

[lost_soul]

I had TDM running with sound fine on Debian X64 a wile ago, so it can be done. I always scrub Pulseaudio from my installs though. If you do not want to scrub PA, you can run the game with pasuspender. That will supposedly allow an app to use ALSA without Pulseaudio "modernizing" your sound experience.

[nitronium]

This is how I fixed the sound on Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit:

 

Looked at the game initialisation output in the cmd so I can see what it's looking for. For me, this fixed it:

 

sudo apt-get install libasound2:i386

sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386

 

and it now works with sound with no command line parameters etc. It needed the 32 bit libraries to work on a 64 bit system by the looks of it.

 

Hope this helps someone who like me, was scouring the forums looking how to fix this problem...

[wwwarrick]

It needed the 32 bit libraries to work on a 64 bit system by the looks of it.

 

That is correct, the game requires 32 bit emulation on 64 bit systems to function properly. It is the same for windows machines.