Trying to get sound, I did RTFM

Trying to get sound, I did RTFM

[Christopher Meredith]

I am new to dosemu and am using it simply to play Sid Meier's
Colonization. I am running Gentoo Linux, 2.6.6-rc1 kernel, and have a SB
Live! PCI card set up to use ALSA and OSS emulation.

But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get Colonization to make any
sound. I have uncommented the lines in /etc/dosemu.conf leaving
everything at the deafult (except for turning on sound emulation) and
have set the BLASTER envirnomnet variable in dosemu using all 6 "T"
options. It still makes no sound. I've also tried the tips in the sound
documentation for using midid and I can't get music either. I'd really
appreciate help.

If you need the program to test, it can be downloaded here:
http://theophile.blogdns.com/misc/colonize.zip

Thanks in advance!

~Christopher

Re: Trying to get sound, I did RTFM

[Ryan Underwood]

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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:26:28PM -0500, Christopher Meredith wrote:
> I am new to dosemu and am using it simply to play Sid Meier's
> Colonization. I am running Gentoo Linux, 2.6.6-rc1 kernel, and have a SB
> Live! PCI card set up to use ALSA and OSS emulation.
> 
> But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get Colonization to make any
> sound.

Can you get sound in any _other_ programs?

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>

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Re: Trying to get sound, I did RTFM

[Christopher Meredith]

Any other DOS programs using dusemu? I don't have any others :-(

But ALSA and OSS emulation are working fine on my system, tested with
XMMS.

~Christopher

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 14:51, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:26:28PM -0500, Christopher Meredith wrote:
> > I am new to dosemu and am using it simply to play Sid Meier's
> > Colonization. I am running Gentoo Linux, 2.6.6-rc1 kernel, and have a SB
> > Live! PCI card set up to use ALSA and OSS emulation.
> > 
> > But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get Colonization to make any
> > sound.
> 
> Can you get sound in any _other_ programs?

Re: Trying to get sound, I did RTFM

[Eemeli Kantola]

Christopher Meredith wrote:
> Any other DOS programs using dusemu? I don't have any others :-(
> 
> But ALSA and OSS emulation are working fine on my system, tested with
> XMMS.

Have you read doc/sound-usage.txt in dosemu source tree, too? I did 
manage to get both sound effects and midi music (throuch TiMidity) 
working with most of the dos games, including Colonization.

-Eemeli

Re: Trying to get sound, I did RTFM

[Christopher Meredith]

Yes I did. I followed it to the letter. Unless there's something obvious
I'm missing, I couldn't get it going.

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 15:41, Eemeli Kantola wrote:
> Christopher Meredith wrote:
> > Any other DOS programs using dusemu? I don't have any others :-(
> > 
> > But ALSA and OSS emulation are working fine on my system, tested with
> > XMMS.
> 
> Have you read doc/sound-usage.txt in dosemu source tree, too? I did 
> manage to get both sound effects and midi music (throuch TiMidity) 
> working with most of the dos games, including Colonization.
> 
> -Eemeli
> 
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Re: Trying to get sound, I did RTFM

[Marko Sormunen]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Christopher Meredith wrote:

> Yes I did. I followed it to the letter. Unless there's something obvious
> I'm missing, I couldn't get it going.

I have the same card (SoundBlaster Live!) and got the midi working by
simply creating the symlink to /dev/amidi instead of /dev/midi. This way
the midi works through OSS emulation and Live!'s own Wavetable synthesis.
Rememeber you still need sfxload tools and a set of MIDI instruments to go
along with that or you will get no sound.

Wave sound worked right out of the box for me with Dosemu.

---
Marko Sormunen, M.Sc.
HIS-research unit, Centek, Computing Centre
University of Kuopio

Re: Trying to get sound, I did RTFM

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Christopher Meredith wrote:
> Yes I did. I followed it to the letter. Unless there's something 
> obvious I'm missing, I couldn't get it going.
Have you configured your game to use
Sound Blaster 16 with appropriate
port, IRQ and DMA?
If yes, then produce a -D9+cS log and
see what's going wrong there.