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Thread ID: 14593	2002-01-13 02:00:00	Linux Doom audio and Graphics problems	Guest (0)	Press F1

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31003	2002-01-13 02:00:00	Hi, I have just installed doom for linux (mandrake 8.0). It is installed into /usr/games/doom/ and the loading file is called 'rundoom'. when I execute 'rundoom' using the command ./rundoom from in a terminal window it first asks 'can your computer support sound?' my computer can, so I select yes. When it has finished runing through most of it's loading it says: Error: xdoom currently only supports 256-color PseudoColor screens and: musserver: no synth devices found, exiting. If I choose not to use sound it gives me only the message about using pseudoColour screens... how do I resolve these two issues? Do I need to get a 'PseudoColour' screen? and what about the sound problem? It's be good to run it with Audio. I also tried changing my display to 256 colours, but that didn't help... thanks in advance, Erin	Guest (0)
31004	2002-01-13 02:09:00	I think the Synth error is because your sound card or driver doesn't support MIDI. There may be an option to turn music off. I think the other error wants you to switch to 256 colour mode (done thru the mandrake control center) as X seems to only support changing resolutions.	Guest (0)
31005	2002-01-13 10:20:00	Hi, Yes, changing to 256 colour mode did fix it after all. I was unaware that I needed to restart X before the changes took effect. As for the Audio, I tried running it with sound on anyway, and miraculously it worked! However, when I play it it runs in a tiny window in the corner of the screen. In addition to the small screen there is a big fullscreen olne which changes colour sometimes and has the desktop slightly visible through it. I think that this is attempting to be a full screen version, but that something isn't quite right... any ideas? Thx:-) Erin	Guest (0)
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