diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5d442cd50d..56aa2752c6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 language: cpp
-sudo: true
+sudo: required
+dist: trusty
 
 install:
   - ./tools/travis-install.sh "${host:-native}" "${flavour:-Release}" $opts
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ compiler: gcc
 env:
   - ""
   - flavour=Debug
-  #- host=i686-linux-gnu
+  - host=i686-linux-gnu
   - host=i686-w64-mingw32
   - host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 
diff --git a/tools/travis-build.sh b/tools/travis-build.sh
index 185a08580e..b7e6d33e10 100755
--- a/tools/travis-build.sh
+++ b/tools/travis-build.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ set -- -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="$flavour" "$@"
 	-D BuildJK2SPGame=ON \
 	-D BuildJK2SPRdVanilla=ON \
 	-D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/prefix \
-	-D CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \
 	"$@" .. )
 make -C build
 make -C build install DESTDIR=$(pwd)/build/DESTDIR
diff --git a/tools/travis-install.sh b/tools/travis-install.sh
index fe50f3c680..d969eea271 100755
--- a/tools/travis-install.sh
+++ b/tools/travis-install.sh
@@ -7,11 +7,18 @@ host="$1"
 flavour="$2"
 shift 2
 
-# We need cmake from Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty), the version in 12.04 is too old.
-# We also need SDL2, which is broken in 14.04 but OK in trusty-updates;
-# and dpkg from 14.04 fixes installation of libglib2.0-dev:i386.
-echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main universe" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
-echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main universe" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
+# travis-ci's Ubuntu 14.04 image provides an apt source for Chrome,
+# which breaks i386 multiarch. Disable it: we don't need it for any of
+# these builds anyway.
+: | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
+
+# do this before apt-get update
+case "${host}" in
+	(i?86-linux-gnu)
+		sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
+		;;
+esac
+
 sudo apt-get update -qq
 sudo apt-get -q -y install cmake dpkg
 
@@ -39,6 +46,7 @@ case "${host}" in
 			libgl1-mesa-dev:i386 libpulse-dev:i386 libglu1-mesa-dev:i386 \
 			libsdl2-dev:i386 libjpeg-turbo8-dev:i386 zlib1g-dev:i386 libc6-dev:i386 \
 			libpng12-dev:i386 \
-			g++-multilib g++ gcc cpp g++-4.8 gcc-4.8 g++-4.8-multilib
+			g++-multilib g++-4.8-multilib gcc-4.8-multilib \
+			g++ g++-4.8 gcc gcc-4.8 cpp cpp-4.8
 		;;
 esac