From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01DC138CCF for ; Mon, 25 May 2015 00:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97228E095D; Mon, 25 May 2015 00:00:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C15E093A for ; Mon, 25 May 2015 00:00:12 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0DgFQA731xV///k92hcgxCBMoglu0CHSwQCAoE8OxIBAQEBAQEBgQpBBYNdAQEEOhwzCxgJAxASDwUlNxqIEs8jAQEBBwIBH4s6hQwWgwGBFgWScHeKCId4jx0jYYEpHIFuIjGCRwEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: A0DgFQA731xV///k92hcgxCBMoglu0CHSwQCAoE8OxIBAQEBAQEBgQpBBYNdAQEEOhwzCxgJAxASDwUlNxqIEs8jAQEBBwIBH4s6hQwWgwGBFgWScHeKCId4jx0jYYEpHIFuIjGCRwEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="122048775" Received: from 104-247-228-255.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([104.247.228.255]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 24 May 2015 20:00:12 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 24 May 2015 19:59:54 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 19:59:54 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox Message-ID: <20150524235954.GA26635@waltdnes.org> References: <20150523185926.GA32492@waltdnes.org> <20150524221540.GA26464@waltdnes.org> <201505250010.59100.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201505250010.59100.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 50e91db8-531f-4ac7-a358-fade08854d55 X-Archives-Hash: 05942aea9a102276f7451fb0f995b8a5 On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:10:56AM +0100, Mick wrote > On Sunday 24 May 2015 23:15:40 Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > > > > > This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I > > > > > > start up dosbox, it says... > > > > > > [d531][waltdnes][~] dosbox > > > DOSBox version 0.74 > > > Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. > > > --- > > > CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file > > > /home/waltdnes/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf MIXER:Can't open audio: No > > > available audio device , running in nosound mode. ALSA:Can't subscribe > > > to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0) > > > MIDI:Opened device:oss > > > > > > It used to work before I re-installed Gentoo (32-bit ==> 64-bit). > > > > > > Audio works in linux Youtube, mplayer, mpg123, etc. It's just dosbox > > > that fails. Google searching did not help. I saw a few references to > > > checking for missing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. They are present on my > > > system. Any ideas? > > > > Turns out I had to enable alsa for sdl and dosbox. Here are the > > required entries from my /etc/portage/package.use/package.use file... > > > > games-emulation/dosbox alsa > > media-libs/libsdl alsa > > > > ...or I could've enabled alsa globally in make.conf > > It is enabled in make.defaults for all desktop profiles I think. USE="X apng bindist ffmpeg jpeg png truetype xorg mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 -acl -berkdb -chatzilla -cracklib -crypt -gallium -gdbm -gmp-autoupdate -gstreamer -iconv -introspection -ipc -iptables -ipv6 -libav -llvm -nls -openmp -pam -roaming -sendmail -tcpd -udev -unicode" I'm running default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib. Out of sheer curiousity, is it OK to remove the x86 CPU flags from USE yet and assume that CPU_FLAGS_X86 is used by all ebuilds? The news item suggested keeping them around for a while. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications