Doom Collectors edition sound and installation problems.

TheCandyMan · Post by **TheCandyMan** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:25 pm

I am currently having a problem not only installing Doom Collectors edition, but also getting sound when I try to play it. (It comes with doom 95 right on the disc already installed, but I would like to install it so I can play other WADs). When I try to install it, it just freezes up. Also, about the sound, I read the sticky on top, and tried some of the things some people did. Strangely enough, the sound test works in Wine Config, but when I try to play Doom, I get no sound.

dabski · Post by **dabski** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:46 pm

Have you tried switching between OSS and ALSA in winecfg? Also there are native doom ports for Linux like zdoom, prboom, odamex and jdoom.

TheCandyMan · Post by **TheCandyMan** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:11 pm

Does that mean turning off OSS and just leaving ALSA on, and vice versa? If so, I think I have tried that.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:16 pm

TheCandyMan wrote:Does that mean turning off OSS and just leaving ALSA on, and vice versa? If so, I think I have tried that.

You should use ALSA (OSS mostly deprecated) and kill pulseaudio or any other sound server (arts,esd,jack).

However you will get much better results if you just use any of the native Linux ports of that game.

TheCandyMan · Post by **TheCandyMan** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:21 pm

Well sure, but I would think Wine could do doom right? Or should I stick to Windows for my gaming?

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:44 pm

The game is rated platinum in the AppDB for 1.1.1. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=12991

I have two questions:

1. What version of Wine are you using? If it's older than 1.1.1, upgrade.
2. You say you "read the sticky on top and tried some of the things some people did." Was disabling/removing Pulseaudio one of the things you tried? If not, try that.

If you're running 1.1.1 or later, have completely disabled Pulseaudio, and still can't install, run the installer from a terminal and post console output.

TheCandyMan · Post by **TheCandyMan** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:22 am

Well hmm, I was wrong, how do I exactly disable pulseaudio? I have also switched between OSS and ALSA, both have no sound.

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:41 am

TheCandyMan wrote:how do I exactly disable pulseaudio?

Ask in your distro's support forums.