Angband doesn't have any sound in the SDL2 version. Upon launching the game and setting use_sound=yes in the UI settings in-game (accessed by pressing '=' and then 'a'), no sounds are ever played. When running `angband --help` in the console, no sound modules are listed under the sound module tab in the output. In version 4.2.0 the sdl2 USE flag could be disabled so that the sdl USE flag kicked in, which had working sound. This allowed running e.g. `angband -ssdl -mgcu` to get sound in the terminal version, or simply running the Angband SDL version with sound. It seems the sdl2 USE flag has been removed entirely in version 4.2.1, which now only offers SDL2 support in the ebuild from what I can tell (and hence no sound). I believe sound should work in both versions if you compiled the sound from the regular SDL system regardless of the UI system being used. The application is compiled with all USE="X ncurses sdl sound".
Thanks for the report. If I'm not mistaken, it is an upstream bug. Would you report it there https://github.com/angband/angband/issues ?
I'm not familiar with the development of Angband so I'm not really sure if it classifies as a bug or not. From what I can see the SDL2 frontend was recently introduced with v4.2.0 (Aug. 2019) as seen in the release history: https://rephial.org/release/4.2.0 However I'm not sure if that includes sound working in SDL2. Nevertheless it would be nice to have a workaround in the Gentoo package allowing it to use the regular sdl version for sound only until sound is fixed/added upstream. As mentioned sound worked perfectly in 4.2.0 when using the sdl flag, even in the terminal version. It should probably be simple to install the SDL sound module for the package if the sound USE flag is enabled. I will also experiment with compiling from source and report it as a bug upstream if the issue is the same there.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6052cff30f398cf28089db8988666c6c2a189116 commit 6052cff30f398cf28089db8988666c6c2a189116 Author: Stefan Strogin <steils@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-08-10 22:14:48 +0000 Commit: Stefan Strogin <steils@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-10 22:23:30 +0000 games-roguelike/angband: add patch to fix SDL2 sound Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/728096 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.2, Repoman-2.3.23 Signed-off-by: Stefan Strogin <steils@gentoo.org> games-roguelike/angband/angband-4.2.1-r1.ebuild | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++ .../angband/files/angband-4.2.1-sdl2-sound.patch | 50 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 158 insertions(+)
