[ut2004] voice chat SOLVED!

Gian Paolo Mureddu Thetargos at tutopia.com
Sun Feb 15 23:15:23 EST 2004


rob larkin wrote:

> 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)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> 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
>
>
Excellent.



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