68259 2004-10-20 04:04 0000 timidity++ support not included in games-rpg/xu4 2006-12-21 15:30:19 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Games unspecified x86 Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 minor --- 1 mdb@cs.unm.edu games@gentoo.org flash3001@yahoo.com matija.suklje@rutka.net mdb@cs.unm.edu 2004-10-20 04:04:34 0000 timidity++ support is required to play midi files which are part of the game Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. mdb@cs.unm.edu 2004-10-20 04:07:55 0000 There is also an optional ogg music project in the works at http://www.stevenkeys.com/xu4.cfm this would eliminate the timidity++ dependency when it is completed. flaudebe@yahoo.fr 2005-03-22 20:27:57 0000 There is a problem of compatibilty versions between timidity++ and sdl-mixer. I added the keyword "soundfount /path/blabla" to my config file /etc/timidity.cfg to set up midi configuration. Timidity plays fine any of my .mid files. When starting xu4 it says "xu4: warning: unable to load music file /usr/games/lib/u4/music/Towns.mid: timidity.cfg: line 25: syntax error". On line 25 of /etc/timidity.cfg is the soundfont keyword. I investigate a little bit by looking at the sources of xu4 and sdl-mixer. Xu4 is using a function call to sdl-mixer library. Actually, this is sdl-mixer library that returns the syntax error to xu4. Looking in sdl-mixer sources, it fails at parsing /etc/timidity.cfg because the keyword "soundfount" (valid for timidity) is not yet implemented. xu4-0.9 and library versions : sdl-mixer-1.2.5-r1 or sdl-mixer-1.2.6 and timidity++-2.13.2 wolf31o2@gentoo.org 2005-07-19 14:33:00 0000 So there is a bug in SDL-mixer that is causing this? wolf31o2@gentoo.org 2005-09-07 13:00:42 0000 Feel free to REOPEN this with the answer or a patch... mr_bones_@gentoo.org 2006-04-23 00:13:51 0000 No reply. Closing. mdb@cs.unm.edu 2006-04-23 15:15:37 0000 No, SDL-mixer plays the files fine. It is something with xu4. I spoke with the developers a couple of times and they do not have any 64-bit machines to test it on. This happens in Fedora Core 4 and SUSE 10 as well. Only with amd64. mdb@cs.unm.edu 2006-04-23 15:16:14 0000 See previous comment. tupone@gentoo.org 2006-12-21 15:30:19 0000 A check for sdl-mixer without midi support as been put in the ebuild.