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