Bug 340879

Summary:	games-emulation/dosbox-0.74: MIDI doesn't work if timidity is started with init script
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nikos Chantziaras <realnc>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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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.