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dosbox also midi (timidity) trouble

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First post, by kolijoco

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know this has been asked a couple of times but i'm stuck
(i did do lots of googling)

i'm trying to make midi work in dosbox-0.72 linux (built from tarball on a 2.6.19.1 linux)

i've installed timidity, started it as an alsa server, pmidi works fine,
however, dosbox still gives me the:

MIDI:Can't find device:alsa, finding default handler.
MIDI:Opened device:none

my dosbox confs are set to:
mpu401=intelligent
device=alsa
config=128:0

i guess this could be an alsa issue, but as pmidi works i don't really know where to look... how could i test sdl midi playback for example?

(don't feel like debugging dosbox just yet)

all suggestions welcome!
thanks

Reply 1 of 2, by `Moe`

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It seems your DOSBox binary was built without ALSA MIDI support. So you could go and ask the one responsible for that binary, or build one yourself.

The first is easy: I guess you just installed DOSBox from your distribution's package manager, in that case go to the support forums of your distribution.

The latter is a little more difficult. Check the forums here, there is a guide on self-compiling dosbox somewhere.

Reply 2 of 2, by kolijoco

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right you were...
rebuilt (after installing libasound-dev or whatever) and it works like a charm :-)
thanks!

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