[ut2004] voice chat

[rob larkin]

Aaron Gyes wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 15:21 -0800, rob larkin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a readme or how-to somewhere on how to setup my environment so 
>>that voice chat will work with ut2004?  I'm using a sblive (emu10k) 
>>under alsa SuSE 8.2.  My mic works.  When I join a server I do 
>>automatically join the team channel just like in windows, but my mic is 
>>on all the time.  How do I make the "voice activation key" work?
> 
> 
> Icculus said yesterday that it will probably not work with native ALSA
> backend of OpenAL, and might not work with ALSA's oss emulation. Bad
> because I can only get surround working with ALSA. :(

Ok, I've pretty much given up on making it work with ALSA and I'm 
considering getting rid of ALSA for OSS just for this game.  It sucks 
because so much depends on ALSA.  I have two questions I hope someone on 
this list can answer:

Has anyone confirmed that the voice chat feature works with OSS?  I'd 
hate to go thru the trouble just to find out it doesn't work anyway.

Does anyone have experience with changing from ALSA to OSS "on the fly"? 
  I mean using a bash script to shut down ALSA, remove the ALSA modules, 
load the OSS driver etc.  And of course a script to go back to ALSA, 
maybe it could setup as a ut2004 start script like in init.d

Thx,

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