[ut2004] voice chat SOLVED!

[rob larkin]

Andrew Pilley wrote:
> If you're technically inclined, you can recompile your own openal to get voice
> capture to work, see this url: http://icculus.org/~warp/ut2004/
> It contains basic instructions, and mentions a few caveats.
> 
> Andrew 'ashridah' Pilley
> 
> 
> Quoting rob larkin <manifold at manifoldone.com>:
> 
> 
>>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,
>>
>>}MB{MANIFOLD-recruiting at www.clan-mb.net (Rob)
>>
>>
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It works like a charm, and not realy difficult if you know how to 
install a tarball you'll be able to follow his instructions...

Rob