There seem to be lots of threads regarding this, and a number of solutions,
all hinting at incorrect permissions etc., did you try any of those already?

What on earth has konsole to do with dosbox? They are two totally unrelated programs. Why would konsole give any message at all when starting dosbox?

they probably start dosbox in a console or so

Hi wd et al.

I tried a search for PTR (in the General forum) but got no luck.
Also could not find any Linux posts related to permissions per se (searching for "Linux permissions" in the DOSBox General forum).

Curiously the Konsole reply got me thinking. So I tried the built-in KDE terminal. And it works, well, sort of.
Curiously this is also firing up Konsole (now that's wierd...).

I still get no sound but got some diagnostic errors (to do with ALSA wanting access to MIDI, yet I thought I disabled MIDI and activated SB in the config file?).
The errors are:
ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0)
MIDI:Opened device:oss

I'll look at the other alsa posts. Any help in the meantime would be appreciated.

Thanks for continued help.

Cheers

Andy

(and yes Konsole is the default terminal for KDE under Kubuntu).

I tried a search for PTR (in the General forum) but got no luck.

There's another quite interesting search facility, google.

Anyways, about the sound thing, use the latest dosbox version.
If it doesn't work there, post your alsa settings.

Those diagnostics are harmless. They don't do any harm, they just indicate that you don't have any MIDI hardware with ALSA drivers at config=65:0, which is quite common these days (think "onboard sound")
They don't influence your digital sound issue.

The PTY issue is, as I said, totally unrelated to dosbox, and is likely ubuntu-specific, so ask them about it if you care. Sorry I can't help more, since while I have one kubuntu box, the majority of my machines run gentoo here. This too doesn't have anything to do with your sound issue.

Some hints for diagnosis:
- Do you get sound on your desktop?
- Do you get sound when two different non-KDE programs are running (say, XMMS and xawtv)?
- Do you get sound in other SDL apps (say, scummvm or many other emulators)?
- Have you tried different ways to produce sound in DOSBox?

The latest dosbox version tries 17:0 besides 65:0 thus i was asking
for the version number to exclude the obvious.

If dosbox is already trying to autodetect, then put 128:0 in there as well, that's a timidity software synth in ALSA mode.