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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