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Dominions 2 sound

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#1

Hello all: I am quite new to Linux, so I am probably overlooking something fairly obvious.

I have downloaded the demo for Dominions 2 from here. The game runs fine, so far as I have run it. However, I don't have any sound. Now, I may very well have not played far enough into the game for there to be any sound, but I rather suspect it is not working for me. It also may be that the demo has no sound?

Sound seems to be a hit or miss thing for me in games. I had it once, briefly in a Neverwinter Nights install, but I borked that install and have never since been able to have sound no matter how many times I reinstalled the game. Doom3, however, had sound from the get-go, so I am pretty sure it is just an issue of me not knowing what I am doing at this point.

My soundcard is a Creative Audigy2 ZS. It is selected as the default soundcard for my system. My motherboard is an Asus somehtingorother that has onboard sound.

I have sound for DVD's, MP3's and such, but for games it is hit or miss. Either a game will have sound right out of the box, or it will not. I suspect I may be missing a package or two to enable sounds across the board for games but, as a very new user, I don't know which package it might be.

Any ideas?

#2

Disable the onboard sound chip in the bios. And try my sound howto. The link is in my signature. You should do the oss and the alsa part (not the esd part).

#3

Hmm....

So I plug my speakers into the on-board audio port and I have sound in the Dominions 2 demo.

I am not entirely certain I *can* disable the on-board audio. I have an Asus 7v333 motherboard. My computer's bios is AwardBIOS 1.0 (I believe). It has no option for on-board peripherals or PCI devices. The on-board device is a C-Media 8738.

I don't think I can flash the BIOS to a newer one since I have no a: drive in this computer.

I guess if I want sound in the game, I can use the onboard sound. If I want higher quality sounds in something, I can just switch the speaker plug back to the Audigy card.

#4

Perhaps you should take this problem to the Harware forum, there will be a bigger chance that someone knows what to be done.

#5

I moved this thread to video&sound in the hardware forum.

Try the motherboard manual to find how to disable onboard sound.

Try my sound guide (see below in my signature). I added some stuff about the audigy 2. Maybe it also works for you.

good luck!