<DIV>use your lspci program to retrieve the hardware list for the right setting for the soundcard.</DIV>
<DIV>you have to look under /usr/bin to find the lspci prog for every distro it is aparently different.<BR><BR><B><I>rix <zajelo3@cfl.rr.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">rix wrote:<BR><BR>> Hi all,<BR>> All right, I got my openal set up mostly right except I get some <BR>> static when the game starts. I have a feeling it's the<BR>><BR>> (define alsa-out-device "hw:0,0") comment in .openalrc. How do you <BR>> know what the "out-device" is on any particular machine? Is the <BR>> "hw:0,0" representative of the pci bus location of the sound card? I <BR>> have tried "default" instead of "hw:0,0" that doesn't work at all. <BR>> Also, I got like a 3 fps performance boost out of this tweak. Thanks <BR>> guys for helping out.<BR>><BR>> Rick B.<BR>><BR>><BR>Nevermind, I found some documetation and from what I learned "hw:0,0" <BR>should be the right output. I'll fiddle with it 'till I get it right. <BR>Maybe it's "plughw:0,0".<BR><BR>Rick B<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>