I Replaced my mainboard and CPU about a month ago. The new board has on-board sound as did my old mainboard, but the new board uses an Intel8x0 sound chip, the old board had a Yamaha YMFPCI chipset. Because of the difference in sound systems I needed to rebuild the ALSA drivers and decided to get the latest from ALSA. This also required a kernel upgrade, from 2.4.20 to 2.6.2. I built and installed the new kernel and the ALSA drivers, got sound working in linux and on my KDE desktop and then tried to get sound from Wine. No luck. I have ALSA configured with sequencer and oss support and everything seems to load properly, but I have no sound at all from Wine. I've just upgraded to ALSA-1.0.3 and Kernel 2.6.3 because of some fixes to the intel8x0 driver in ALSA, but still no sound.
I use Wine primarily for a couple of Windows games, Unreal (1) and Half-Life and before my hardware upgrade everything worked great, now I get no sound at all. no error message to help me locate the problem and Half-Life complains that the sound hardware is in use by another app but continues to load and play but in complete silence. I've tried using Arts support in wine but that only give music, now sound effects. I've also tried the ALSA support in Wine and that works better, but the sound effects lag the action by about a second. I'm not picky about how I get sound in Wine so almost any solution will work.
I know there is a way to get this to work because one day about a week and a half ago I actually did get sound from Wine with oss in Unreal. My son and I played Unreal for a couple of hours before turning things off for the night. Next day, no sound in Wine again!
Thanks in advance, Rick Knight (rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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