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On Monday 25 May 2015 00:59:54 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:10:56AM +0100, Mick wrote |
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> |
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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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> > > |
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> > > > This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I |
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> > > > |
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> > > > start up dosbox, it says... |
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> > > > |
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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 |
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> > > > subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0) |
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> > > > MIDI:Opened device:oss |
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> > > > |
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> > > > It used to work before I re-installed Gentoo (32-bit ==> 64-bit). |
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> > > > |
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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 |
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> > > > to checking for missing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. They are present |
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> > > > on my system. Any ideas? |
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> > > > |
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> > > Turns out I had to enable alsa for sdl and dosbox. Here are the |
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> > > |
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> > > required entries from my /etc/portage/package.use/package.use file... |
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> > > |
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> > > games-emulation/dosbox alsa |
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> > > media-libs/libsdl alsa |
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> > > |
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> > > ...or I could've enabled alsa globally in make.conf |
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> > |
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> > It is enabled in make.defaults for all desktop profiles I think. |
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> |
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> USE="X apng bindist ffmpeg jpeg png truetype xorg mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 |
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> ssse3 -acl -berkdb -chatzilla -cracklib -crypt -gallium -gdbm |
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> -gmp-autoupdate -gstreamer -iconv -introspection -ipc -iptables -ipv6 |
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> -libav -llvm -nls -openmp -pam -roaming -sendmail -tcpd -udev -unicode" |
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> |
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> I'm running default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib. Out of sheer |
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> curiousity, is it OK to remove the x86 CPU flags from USE yet and assume |
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> that CPU_FLAGS_X86 is used by all ebuilds? The news item suggested |
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> keeping them around for a while. |
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I don't know the answer to your question, but you're right, I just checked my |
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no-multilib box and it doesn't contain alsa. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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