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On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote |
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> This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I |
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> start up dosbox, it says... |
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> [d531][waltdnes][~] dosbox |
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> DOSBox version 0.74 |
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> Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. |
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> CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /home/waltdnes/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf |
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> MIXER:Can't open audio: No available audio device , running in nosound mode. |
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> ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0) |
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> MIDI:Opened device:oss |
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> It used to work before I re-installed Gentoo (32-bit ==> 64-bit). |
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> Audio works in linux Youtube, mplayer, mpg123, etc. It's just dosbox |
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> that fails. Google searching did not help. I saw a few references to |
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> checking for missing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. They are present on my |
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> system. Any ideas? |
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Turns out I had to enable alsa for sdl and dosbox. Here are the |
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required entries from my /etc/portage/package.use/package.use file... |
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games-emulation/dosbox alsa |
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media-libs/libsdl alsa |
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...or I could've enabled alsa globally in make.conf |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |