Error when trying to install vdrift on Ubuntu 9.10

[diegu]

Hi,

I try to install vdrift from "http://www.playdeb.net/updates/VDrift" by clicking on the "Install this now" button

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 and I get the following messages:

- After clicking , I get a message box "start application" and I choose "apturl".

- Then I get a dialog telling me that 42 files have been downloaded.

- Then I get a dialog telling "Package 'vdrift' could not be found"

In the wiki I read, I have to install several sdl-packages. I could not find any matching package names in synaptic, so I did not install any of them.

Would be great if anyone could help me.

Best regards,
Diegu

[diegu]

Hi guys,

just downloaded the sources and compiled them.
Runs fine - except sound is awkward.

Judging from other posts, I assume the binaries are not available for ubuntu.

Regards,
Diegu

[joevenzon]

The playdeb binaries are the only ones I'm aware of, although I haven't ever tried using them (might want to contact the folks there?).

What's awkward about the sound?

[diegu]

[...]
What's awkward about the sound?

The sound resembles to an old Commodore 64 game and is not at all realistic.

Having read something more, I think I have an installation problem or missing package? Sometimes I do not here any sound at all.

However, when starting, everything seems fine.

See log:

Code:

INFO: Display change was successful: 1680x1050x32 16z fullscreen=0
INFO: Video card information:
      Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
      Renderer: GeForce 9600 GT/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
      Version: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 185.18.36
      Maximum texture size: 8192
      Using GLEW 1.5.1
INFO: Disabling shaders
INFO: Maximum anisotropy: 16
INFO: 0 joysticks found.
INFO: Loading car controls from: /home/diegu/.vdrift/controls.config
INFO: Sound initialization information:
INFO: Obtained audio device:
      Frequency: 44100
      Format: 32784
      Bits per sample: 16
      Channels: 2
      Silence: 0
      Samples: 512
      Size: 2048
      Sound initialization successful

Best regards,
Diegu

[diegu]

...me again (sorry)

Just searched a bit and did the following:
Installed libopenal1 and added a local .openalrc with the following contents:

Code:

(define devices                 '(native alsa sdl arts esd null))
(define alsa-device             "dsp0")
(define speaker-num             2)
;(define sampling-rate          22050)

No change:
Mostly i hear no sound at all.
Sometime sound is crashed.
Once I heard "correct" sound of car for half a lap, then sound got "scrumbled" again.

Any help appreciated.

Best regards,
Diegu

[joevenzon]

Try playing around with this part of the code in src/game.cpp:

Code:

bool GAME::InitializeSound()
{
    if (sound.Init(512, info_output, error_output))

Change the 512 to a higher value like 1024 or 2048, recompile, and see if that fixes it for you.

[diegu]

Thanks joevenzon!

That helped a lot. Problem fixed, fine sound now!

Thanks again and best regards,
Diegu

[geod919]

Hi guys,

just downloaded the sources and compiled them.

where and how?

[joevenzon]

It looks like you already figured this out, but I'll post the answer here anyway in case it helps someone else:

http://wiki.vdrift.net/Installing_on_Linux