>disabled pulseaudio (not removed) and rebooted. I still have no sound in wine. there is no audio control panel for wine yet. wine conf shows both sound devices under alsa. still same conditions. > >Where is the audio control panel supposed to be for wine config audio ? is there something that didn't get installed with wine? --- Here's what I do. Pulseaudio takes a bit of disabling. Make sure that /etc/pulse/client.conf has autospawn uncommented and set to no (without the uncomment, it defaults to yes) apt-get install alsa-oss Then run winecfg set audio to OSS only. (You'll really be getting alsa-oss emulation, I think.) Wine does not control sound volume. That's set by alsa. You have to adjust settings using alsamixer. So you have to be using the default sound card. (Note --I use an add-on card, so I have to set the default sound card the only way I know how, which is using asoundconf. But asoundconf is not offered in the latest alsa-utils, so I have to regress to Jaunty's version.) That should work. If it doesn't, check to see that pulseaudio is really disabled. Upon reboot, mine sneaks back in and I have to shut it off using System Monitor. HTH -- I'm no expert.