quake 2 sound problem under linux

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Hey, there

I have some really tricky problems with quake 2 and need your help.

Since I want to play with quake 2, I first tried quake2 3.20. But
I got an "/dev/dsp Broken pipe". I have no way out and then turned to
quake2forge. It's better, but not perfect. I could run quakeforge 2
very well, but I got no music except the periodical noise. And my
soundcard works well otherwise, it can even play the *.wav file in the
quake directory.

I was struggling with this stuff for the whole week, please help!!!

The quake2forge version is: 0.2.1
Redhat 9.0 with kernel: 2.4.20-31.9
Soundcard: AC97
/sbin/lsmod:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ac97_codec 14568 0 (unused)
ac97 5088 0 (unused)
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
udf 98432 0 (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss 44356 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 15480 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
8139too 18120 1
mii 3976 0 [8139too]
e1000 60288 1
sg 36524 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18136 2 (autoclean)
snd-intel8x0 23776 0 (autoclean)
snd-pcm 83360 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss
snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 15432 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 36132 0 (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 4732 0 (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 18336 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 6128 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi]
snd 39500 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss
snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 6404 3 (autoclean) [snd]
ide-scsi 12208 1
scsi_mod 107544 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35712 0
cdrom 33728 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
mousedev 5556 1
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 26412 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 20072 0 (unused)
usbcore 79040 1 [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ext3 70784 2
jbd 51988 2 [ext3]


~shane