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