[gentoo-user] No sound in dosbox

[gentoo-user] No sound in dosbox

[Walter Dnes]

  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?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox

[Walter Dnes]

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

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox

[Mick]

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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.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox

[Walter Dnes]

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 <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox

[Mick]

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On Monday 25 May 2015 00:59:54 Walter Dnes wrote:
> 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.

I don't know the answer to your question, but you're right, I just checked my 
no-multilib box and it doesn't contain alsa.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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