Teamspeak2 How-To for ALSA and OSS

**GlaDiaC** · 31-12-2003, 15:14

Hi,

Location has changed.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...ge=HOWTO+Sound

-- gladiac

miklesz · 01-01-2004, 17:41

Please be careful with:
ln -sf /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp1
ln -sf /dev/sound/dsp1 /dev/dsp
It may disable sound at all!

**GlaDiaC** · 27-02-2004, 13:59

I think it would help if someone could make it "sticky"

**SatanClaus** · 28-02-2004, 12:50

done

**abostick** · 25-03-2004, 21:58

I posted this same thing to the linux-gamers.net websit, but I'll put it here as well.

If you run emu10k1, you will not have an adsp device. So his test of cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sound/adsp will not work. Also, the symlink tricks are not needed.

For the emu10k1, just make sure TS works by itself, then make sure your game works by itself. While your game is running, find the process name for it using ps. For winex3.3 from transgaming, this turned out to be winex3.

Then use the echo trick you see elsewhere on these forums but use the process name for your game. Then you should be set.

I have TS2 working with War3 and CoD! Sweeeeet!

**kapuzineralex** · 26-03-2004, 10:20

Unfortunately the echo trick doesnt seem to work for TS2 and Unreal Tournament 2004. The executable turns out to be ut2004-bin. When I do the echo-stuff there's still no sound at all in UT2K4.

Maybe UT2K4 starts another UT-type soundserver which I haven't seen yet. In this case ut2004-bin would be the wrong name.

Sad but true...

Alex

**Freaksta** · 11-04-2004, 22:19

I really need teamspeak + UT2k4.. any hope of a ALSA compatible version of TeamSpeak?

**D0M1N8R** · 13-04-2004, 19:35

Im running alsa (Lindows 4.5 default version) and it works fine with UT2004 demo and full versions and teamspeak. Only problem is the mic will not work on UT if teamspeak is running. the sound works normal. Turn off teamspeak and start up ut2004 demo or full and the mic works fine. Is there a way to have the mic work on UT2004 and TS RC2 at same time? dunno and dont know why I would want it to.

**rafalmag** · 16-05-2004, 15:51

and how to make America's Army Operations work with TS? I am using ALSA too.

**Kalendrinn** · 14-07-2004, 10:03

I seem to have the unfortunate problem of using an AC97 built-in sound chip by VIA Technologies. I have tried everything but according to the above link(the how-to) there is no way I can get TS and my game (Tribes 2) working together. Now here's what I don't understand. I had XP on here and just switch to linux(it was a long time coming but I put it off way too long) and TS and Tribes 2 worked just fine together. No problems whatsoever. I haven't changed any of the hardware or anything, it's all still the same as it was when I had XP on it. Can someone explain this to me other than to say that it's just sucky ALSA drivers. I don't quite buy that. There's got to be a way to get it to work together like it did in XP. Please help, I want to get this working. Btw, I have been able to use one or the other, just not both. That's where the problem lies.

**Thetargos** · 14-07-2004, 21:08

I don't understand this: with some combinations of ALSA drivers + some OSS software, there are occassions where your game (OSS app) won't have sound even if you don't use any other sound source (GAIM or TS for instance). AFAIK this is a problem in the OSS library and emulation process in ALSA rather than a game problem.

There's the case (like a friend of mine) who have the sound subsystem working flawelessly with ALSA, but with TS, the game loses all sound (here the echo trick may cut it). Since TS is being developed still and has more chances to support ALSA than an old game (like UT99 or Quake3), support for native ALSA interface should free the OSS emulation and lock of the game you want to run, and since the OSS code of the game would run through ALSA's OSS emulation polyphony should be attainable.

As others have suggested already, the use of OpenAL could serve to standarize and make platform independent the implementation of the sound routines, though I don't know if the overhead would be greater due to the fact that there's no HW support for OAL in Linux (at least not without an SB-Live!).

Since I have an SB-Live I do not see many of the problems many other users do see, but I've used also TS in systems other than mine, so I have seen the issues.

My 2¢

**Redemption042** · 06-11-2004, 02:48

When I try doing the echo trick I get a "permission denied" message even though I use the command as root with userwritable enabled. any ideas? I'm using ubuntu 4.10

**lulux** · 16-11-2004, 13:42

Originally Posted by Freaksta

any hope of a ALSA compatible version of TeamSpeak?

Any News .. ??? it would be a Great Thing ^^

**GlaDiaC** · 16-07-2005, 12:56

Maybe they use OpenAL for the next version.

Btw: HOWTO has been updated...

**Thelinuxretard** · 10-01-2006, 22:20

And still I understand none of it.

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