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No sound on Fedora 8

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First post, by szilagyic

Posted on 2008-05-20, 03:32

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Hello:

I am trying to get DOSBox running on a Fedora 8 box, using Gnome desktop environment. My sound is working fine in Fedora (Gnome). But, when I fire up DOSBox and try to run any game with sound, I get nothing. The games detect the sound card in DOSBox (sb16), but where it should be playing sound, I get silence. I have looked all over and so far haven't found a solution. I have tried changing settings in the config file (device=oss), and no luck. I read another post that mentioned a conflict with the desktop environment and a "sound wrapper" for DOSBox, but I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation on this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much in advance....

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Chris

Reply 1 of 2, by collector

Posted on 2008-05-20, 05:59

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Can you play both wave and MIDI in Gnome?

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Reply 2 of 2, by szilagyic

Posted on 2008-05-21, 20:57

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That was the issue (MIDI not working within Gnome). It looks like I had disabled the "avahi-daemon" which Fedora 8 needs for some of the sound functions. After I re-enabled this service, everything works great. Thank you for your help.

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