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On Sunday 24 May 2015 23:15:40 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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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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> > --- |
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> > CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file |
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> > /home/waltdnes/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf MIXER:Can't open audio: No |
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> > available audio device , running in nosound mode. ALSA:Can't subscribe |
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> > 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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It is enabled in make.defaults for all desktop profiles I think. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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