Sunday, November 27, 2011

Wolfenstein ET fix for Ubuntu 11.10





A lot of Ubuntu users can't get the old classic Wolfenstein ET to work with sound, but I have good news - I know a fix that works every time.

First of all we need to go fetch the file we need, run this command in the terminal:

wget -q -O - http://nullkey.kapsi.fi/et-sdl-sound/et-sdl-sound.gz | gzip -d > et-sdl-sound && chmod a+x et-sdl-sound

then we need to edit the file from the old alsa sound system to our new pulse sound system:

sudo gedit /home/yourusername/et-sdl-sound

Go to line 40 and the change the line from this:

SDL_AUDIODRIVER="alsa"

to this:

SDL_AUDIODRIVER="pulse"

save the file and close and then you need to make a symbol link, so you can play the game:

/home/yourusername//et-sdl-sound


I hope it works for you, enjoy.

2 comments:

Kim Pedersen said...

Nice little nifty tutorial.

My only problem is that I now get kicked for Duplicate guid when I use this method ! But when I run ET normal I dont ! Any sugentions !

I have tryed with a ned etkey !

Gonzo Dark said...

Hello there Kim

My fix is not the course of your problem ;) It sounds like you are using a old version of ET, or perhaps your etkey is corrupted.

So my suggestion would be to delete your etkey and profile

Enjoy