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No sound in DosBOX under Ubuntu

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First post, by Lockheed

Posted on 2009-12-27, 20:12

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I use latest DosBOX and Ubuntu 9.04 64bit with ALSA.
When I run dosbox I get:

1DOSBox version 0.73
2Copyright 2002-2009 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
3---
4socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
5CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /home/juha/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf
6MIXER:Can't open audio: No available audio device , running in nosound mode.
7ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0)
8MIDI:Opened device:oss

I tried all kinds of modifications to dosbox.conf but none made any difference.

Reply 1 of 6, by Svenne

Posted on 2009-12-29, 00:30

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I really don't know so much about DOSBox, but try to update to Ubuntu 9.10. It's got loads of new stuff, although some screensavers were removed.

Reply 2 of 6, by Lockheed

Posted on 2009-12-29, 00:53

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No way I gonna update. I would lose way too much customization. Besides, it should have no relation to DosBox.

Reply 3 of 6, by Qbix

Posted on 2009-12-29, 06:52

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dosbox uses libsdl for sound output
So maybe check there

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Reply 4 of 6, by dougdahl

Posted on 2009-12-29, 09:07

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I don't know if this is the case, but I was wondering if you might have a 32bit version of dosbox, and possibly it is looking for the 32bit version of alsa, or sdl, or one of their sub-packages? If you got dosbox by apt-get, I should think that it should have taken care of the dependencies.

Also it might not hurt to check the volume control options to see if something has been disabled or muted. And I would definitely use the preference to ensure that all the various channels are displayed. (Sorry for being so vague about the names of what to check on, but I'm not running Ubuntu at this moment, and I'm trying to remember what it's called.)
Or alternately you could try running alsamixer from the command line, but that is a little more cryptic.

Reply 5 of 6, by Lockheed

Posted on 2009-12-29, 09:16

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I installed libsdl1.2debian-alsa and the error message is gone but let us see if the sound is there.

Reply 6 of 6, by laxdragon

Posted on 2009-12-29, 14:01

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In Ubuntu 9.10 you really should:

1apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio

This solved many of my sound issues in Ubuntu.

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