340879 – games-emulation/dosbox-0.74: MIDI doesn't work if timidity is started with init script

Bug 340879 - games-emulation/dosbox-0.74: MIDI doesn't work if timidity is started with init script

Summary: games-emulation/dosbox-0.74: MIDI doesn't work if timidity is started with in...

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Games

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Reported:	2010-10-13 18:12 UTC by Nikos Chantziaras
Modified:	2013-06-06 21:51 UTC (History)
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Description Nikos Chantziaras 2010-10-13 18:12:16 UTC

DOSBox is unable to produce MIDI sound if timidity has been started with:

/etc/init.d/timidity start

If, however, I start timidity manually with the same command line args the init script uses:

/usr/bin/timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=1

Then it works without problems.

Note that other programs don't seem to have a problem with this (like "aplaymidi --port 128 SomeMidiFile.mid").  Only DOSBox is acting up.

I also tried the dosbox-9999 ebuild.  Same problem.

Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-06-06 21:20:51 UTC

Is this still an issue?  I've never been able to reproduce it.

Comment 2 Nikos Chantziaras 2013-06-06 21:27:43 UTC

Hm, I don't know really. I've switched my setup to FluiSynth instead. I suppose this can be closed.