Good to know! I just upgraded to Fedora 40, and I use QEMU to run FreeDOS. I'll have to update my script that runs QEMU.
On Tue, May 14, 2024, 5:35 AM Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I recently hit a problem regarding Sound Blaster 16 card and its > emulation using QEMU. In short, if 'sb16' device was specified, DOOM > always hung at the moment the sound was about to be initialized. If not, > everything worked properly, but without sound. I checked all the info > regarding configuration on the wiki, also the youtube video [1] and > relevant mailing lists mentioning the same [2] or similar [3] problems. > > At the end, I found out there is a simple solution for this problem by > specification of audiodev backend driver. > > Working audio configuration: > > -device sb16,audiodev=snd \ > -device adlib,audiodev=snd \ > -machine pcspk-audiodev=snd \ > -audiodev pipewire,id=snd \ > > Problematic audio configuration: > > -device sb16 \ > -device adlib \ > > I am on Fedora 40 and qemu version I am using is qemu-8.2.2-1.fc40. > Please, replace pipewire with the backend you actually use (alsa, pa, > etc). And sure, proper setting of BLASTER variable is still expected. > > I'd like to share this here as I noticed there was no clear resolution > of these problems in the past. Maybe someone can find it useful :) Also > I was thinking about adding a note regarding this (plus few other things > I hit in the past) into wiki. What do you think about it, please? > > Best regards, > Lukas > > 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSyn_6WB04&t=16s > 2. https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/37302450/ > 3. https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/36905837/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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