Re: [gentoo-user] Gaming on gentoo

[Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:03:42 +0200
Artur Tamm <artur.tamm.85@gmail.com> wrote:

> I try to have a systemd and pulseaudio free setup ("religious" reasons).

I also prefer OpenRC myself but I like pulseaudio. It doesn't replace alsa, it compliments it.

> When I need pulse I use apulse and otherwise everything else is compiled
> with alsa flag.

I normally have both alsa and pulseaudio once I have a desktop profile selected. It's worked well for me.

> I wonder if the issue is related to graphics drivers/libraries instead.

I don't think so but it might be. It really doesn't make sense does it? There is some detail in the works here. It is odd since I have never had a problem with quakespasm or darkplaces. I have always built them from source and they always run without any issues.

I also have issues with ioquake3. I can run a binary I built on slackware and it runs fine (here, on gentoo). When I try to build on gentoo the build fails. I haven't had a good look at that though, I'll leave that on the back burner and look at that another time.

> D remember having segfaults with some other
> linux ports whirh were caused by a missing library which did not show up (I
> do not remember the name but something with ?t3c?) but I think it is now in
> mesa. .If you figure out what opengl features are being used we could
> compare glxinfo outputs.

I am going to build a quakespasm with debugging support and run it through gdb. I am no expert with any of this though, so I have to read up on how to do that. I hope that will provide an answer I can understand and work out.

I'll reply with anything I find and hopefully at some point I can move beyond this.

> So, I tested quakespasm on an ryzen 7 apu (2700u) with vega gpu (thinkpad
> e485). I am using mesa drivers and a linux 6.0.8 kernel.

I was sporting a 6.1 kernel a couple days ago without any issues. :) I am running 5.15.80 now and am happy to stick with the defaults that the gentoo devs choose to go with most times.