help diagnosing problem running armagetron on gentoo

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help diagnosing problem running armagetron on gentoo

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my buddy runs gentoo,.. he says he has no soundcard installed at the moment.. would that make it say:

Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

when a-tron crashes?

he's not got that firewall stuff, & um.. er.. uh that um er.. other thing/misc/

anways, is there some like trick to getting it to run on gentoo, or..

is it crashing cuz he dont have a soundcard..

it compiles ok, & then imidiately he gets that error when he tries to run it ^

i know this isnt really a programming question, but i looked in general forum & nobody was asking tech questions.. & my other favorite tron forum was down so...
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Moved to armagetron support. Miss this part did you?

Have him check that his hostname is setup properly.
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yes, thank you! i will get the hang of this eventually.
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Re: help diagnosing problem running armagetron on gentoo

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SuPeRTaRD wrote:my buddy runs gentoo,.. he says he has no soundcard installed at the moment..

...snip....

anways, is there some like trick to getting it to run on gentoo, or..
I'm using gentoo. I havent configured alsa to work with many sources (ie: only one application can send sound at any time). I also get the SDL parachute when I try to launch a/aa without stopping or at least pausing the music from my favorite mp3 player.

So my guess is: install the sound card drivers.

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Try doing this in a terminal:

export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=#audiodriver#; armagetronad

and try changing #audiodriver# to one of these (or in the worst case u could try 'disk' that writes the output to a file):
dsp, alsa, artsc, esd, dma

There must be an option to disable sound in SDL... I will try to find it ;)
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Can you not turn down the volume?
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ishAdmin wrote:Can you not turn down the volume?
He has no soundcard installed ;p
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ok then, turn the sound all the way up!
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rofl
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Strange that it wont start, even with only one available sound source and it being in use it shouldnt crash n burn, it should just work with no sound. Its is possible that not having ran alsaconf, /dev/dsp and its friends arnt properly linked which is causing the error.
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