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Old 24th July 2008
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so i'll change the hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0 to a : 1 and see if it helps?
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so out of curiosity what does it change?
Linux mmap() behaviour is broken in some subtle way, I don't remember exactly what the issue is ... It's on the FreeBSD mail list somewhere, current@ IIRC.
Most apps work fine anyway, but the quake3 engine (And some other apps) expect this broken behaviour ... Setting this sysctl to 1 emulates the broken mmap() behaviour and allows these applications to work.

There should really be a pkg-message for this ...
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