Has anyone managed to get the cd stereo music to work with Homm2 in Linux? If I run it with Wine I don't get any sound at all, even though other games work with sound. And if I run it with native dosbox I only get the sound effects, but no music. Midi doesn't work in native, but that's probably just because I haven't configured midi in dosbox. I'm not really interested in midi anyway. But if I try to enable the cd music I only get an error message: "Unable to set up CD stereo music. Your CD player might be in use by another program, or your sound driver might not support CD stereo."
I'm running 64-bit ArchLinux, with Dosbox 0.73 and SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa set. If anyone knows how to get the cd music to work I'd be really grateful.
Edit: And when using native dosbox it doesn't play the any videos either. I'm using the dosbox configuration file that was supplied with the game though.

1) install the game with wine. (Do this again, because running the game once makes the game change configuration if it can't find the CD)
2) edit dosboxhomm2.conf
look for imgmount d ".\homm.........
change that to imgmount d "./........
3)
dosbox -conf dosboxhomm2.conf

Thank you so much, it worked! Now I can finally play the game as it was meant to be played.

Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for this post. Got it running on my linux box too.
Yet another fine quality of GOG, most of them run great under wine/dosbox, heh.

To get Heroes of Might and Magic 2 to run under ubuntu 10.10 under dosbox 0.74 I had to do the following steps.

I had to edit the dosboxhomm2.conf file so that the following two lines in the [autoexec] section

imgmount d ".\homm2.inst" -t iso -fs iso
c:

became

c:
imgmount d homm2.inst -t iso -fs iso

otherwise you are not in c:\ when you try and mount the iso

Also for the sound not to skip for me I changed the following in the [mixer] section

rate=44000
prebuffer=100

Thanks to the original post for getting me pointed in the right direction