I've been trying to fix this for a couple of weeks now without any luck. I'm hoping someone here can offer some help.
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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Rick,
I don't think I have enough information to solve the problem, and I may just not be smart enough to help anyway, but let's look into a few things:
1) Since you went to a 2.6 series kernel you complicated things a bit. The alsa-drivers package is built into the 2.6 kernels, so you need to make sure you place your Alsa download for that package in the right location and rebuid the kernel after you've done that.
1a) Alternatively, some Gentoo people have reported that they have built
2.6 series kernels and only enabled sound support as modular, and then built the complete Alsa package outside of the kernel build.
2) What drivers are you loading? Are they built into the kernel or loaded as modules? Provide some modules.conf data and maybe somethign will pop up.
3) How do you have the wine config file set of accessing sound? I've gotten my best results using OSS in that config file and then loading Alsa's OSS Emulation layer.
4) If you're in KDE, then you certainly want to make sure that KDE does NOT start Arts or it will grab the sound hardware and Alsa won't work. Since you got sound somehow, are you doing that with an Alsa app, like alsaplayer, or with some Arts app that comes with KDE?
I hope these ideas trigger some go results.
Best wishes, Mark _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
