The Niklas Lindblad Organisation

A close friend of mine recently visited Paris, France equipped with his brand new Nikon D40.

Running games such as Quake III, Enemy Territory or Return To Castle Wolfenstein on Linux will sometimes fail to initialize sound. After modifying a generic fix for this problem I wrote this:


APP="${1}.x86"
echo "${APP} 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
echo "${APP} 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
echo "${APP} 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm1c/oss


To use it, simply run the script with the game binary’s name as an argument:

# Fix sound for RTCW single player
sh sound-fix.sh wolfsp

# Fix sound for Enemy Territory
sh sound-fix.sh et