[a BigRubberCock (old)]

q3jack is a small piece of software written by Dmitry Baikov as a workaround for the OSS mmap direct access issue.

In short, it hijacks /dev/dsp mmap calls and outputs the sound via jackd instead.

Unfortuneately, the developer's website has been offline for some time and this solution has been buried in the depths of google...with the author's permission, I have created a mirror of the original site here:

http://www.craknet.net/q3jack

When I have time, I will write a formal HOWTO based on my experiences.

Specifically, I am running Q3A in a 32bit chroot on an AMD64 nForce3 Mobo; which has a Realtek ALC850 sound chip. One anomaly remaining...I have to run jackd, q3jack and quake3 all as root:

root@32bitChroot~# jackstart -R -d oss &
root@32bitChroot~# q3jack quake3 +fs_type q3ut3

Cheers




Keywords: AMD64 Quake3 Q3A OSS Alsa mmap ubuntu debian realtime latency jackd sound urbanterror urt ut3 q3

[mitsubishi]

if you can't run teamspeak with it, try oss2jack in a recent low latency kernel. responsiveness and sound quality are like using alsa's dmix.

[a BigRubberCock (old)]

Oswald,

Were you assuming I meant for q3jack to be used for TS? or are you offering it as a good method to get TS working in conjunction with q3jack for Q3A???

q3jack is simply a low level hack to keep the sound processing realtime and avoid all that Alsa / esddsp / modifying proc file nonsense...

I have not however tried to get TS working yet, and was going to do that after this weeks festivities...out of town guest and family want to be entertained, and are interfering with my quake intake. :-/

Please clarify how oss2jack is benefitting you (links R fine) and what non-standard tweaking you had to do.


Thanks! and Happy Holidays!

[6th|illogical]

Um, hate to break it to you, but the user fs is not Oswald. As far as I'm aware Oswald uses Windows, mainly due to the amount of shoutcasting he does and the lack of software available on linux to conduct live casts.

Personally, I've had no trouble getting TS working on my linux desktop using the ALSA v1.0.10 ICE 1724 driver.

Linux oneill 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 #7 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 30 04:26:29 PST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

[HoboHumpinSlut (old)]

thing is, illo, it ain't that easy to get q3a AND ts2 working at the same time on a single-channel soundcard. that is why i got an emu10k1 for like 5 euros off of ebay...

[6th|illogical]

People who are still using single channel cards either need to be shot, or learn how to use dmix.

[mitsubishi]

have you made dmix and snd-pcm-oss work with retail q3 and ts simultaneously?

[HoboHumpinSlut (old)]

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have you made dmix and snd-pcm-oss work with retail q3 and ts simultaneously?

i couldn't get it to work properly.

illo, 2 words: onboard soundcards

[mitsubishi]

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onboard soundcards

that are also found on laptops.

[6th|MrSentry]

I could not get dmix to work on My sound card cmedia-8737
to have q3a and ts2 working at the same time!
a cheap SB-Live card did work for it but not for WindowsXP as I dual-boot this box.