None of the audio drivers seem to work.

blockheadface · Post by **blockheadface** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:43 am

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron with a newly installed Wine 1.0.0. When I go into the Audio tab in winecfg and "test sound", it always comes up with a message saying "Audio test failed!"

The other thing is that when I run GTA: San Andreas, it comes up with a message saying that it couldn't find an audio card so it doesn't run.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?

By the way, my sound card is a reasonably new Sound Blaster 5.1 which functions fine and I haven't messed around with drivers for it because it's worked fine.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:56 pm

blockheadface wrote:I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron with a newly installed Wine 1.0.0. When I go into the Audio tab in winecfg and "test sound", it always comes up with a message saying "Audio test failed!"

The other thing is that when I run GTA: San Andreas, it comes up with a message saying that it couldn't find an audio card so it doesn't run.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?

By the way, my sound card is a reasonably new Sound Blaster 5.1 which functions fine and I haven't messed around with drivers for it because it's worked fine.

Disable pulseaudio - it conflicts with Wine.

Dutchy · Post by **Dutchy** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:19 pm

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

Disable pulseaudio - it conflicts with Wine.

While this is true in some cases, i know from experience that at least
for winecfg and some games (not steam), it works fine if you have alsa
configured to use pulse. I wonder if this is the case on Ubuntu?
Anyway, disabling it is worth a try.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:47 pm

Dutchy wrote:On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:
Disable pulseaudio - it conflicts with Wine.

While this is true in some cases, i know from experience that at least
for winecfg and some games (not steam), it works fine if you have alsa
configured to use pulse. I wonder if this is the case on Ubuntu?
Anyway, disabling it is worth a try.

I'm guessing it depends on drivers and HW capabilities. Throw into this configuration differences - who knows why it works for some and doesn't work for others.

However if everything works without pulseaudio then it's easy to see what the problem is.

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:24 pm

Dutchy wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

Disable pulseaudio - it conflicts with Wine.

While this is true in some cases, i know from experience that at least
for winecfg and some games (not steam), it works fine if you have alsa
configured to use pulse. I wonder if this is the case on Ubuntu?
Anyway, disabling it is worth a try.
I'm guessing it depends on drivers and HW capabilities. Throw into this configuration differences - who knows why it works for some and doesn't work for others.

However if everything works without pulseaudio then it's easy to see what the problem is.

Check the Ubuntu bugs to see if they are having trouble with your card.
hda-intel is a particular problem, which is going to be fixed, so I hear, with kernel 2-6-25 or better.

oiaohm · Post by **oiaohm** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:00 pm

Also be verry aware pasuspender does not automatically start dmix if card is missing on board mixer.

This also causes people to say neither work. When it a issue that should be fixed in pulseaudio because they don't want to be running on top of dmix.

blockheadface · Post by **blockheadface** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:32 am

thanks for all your help.

if i disable pulseaudio, will it disable the sound in ubuntu outside wine?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:57 am

blockheadface wrote:thanks for all your help.

if i disable pulseaudio, will it disable the sound in ubuntu outside wine?

Not if you configure everything else to use ALSA as well.

sbd_ninja · Post by **sbd_ninja** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:29 pm

I just got Ubuntu 8.04 and i have wine1.

I'm having the same problem and i've been trying to get sound working on steam games like TFC. How would i go about configuring alsa? I try to configure sound in wine but it gives me the same error that it cant find an audio device. please help. i love ubuntu and i want every reason not to go back to windows!!!

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:26 pm

sbd_ninja wrote:I just got Ubuntu 8.04 and i have wine1.

I'm having the same problem and i've been trying to get sound working on steam games like TFC. How would i go about configuring alsa? I try to configure sound in wine but it gives me the same error that it cant find an audio device. please help. i love ubuntu and i want every reason not to go back to windows!!!

If you read again what I said you will know what to do.

sbd_ninja · Post by **sbd_ninja** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:45 pm

vitamin wrote:
sbd_ninja wrote:I just got Ubuntu 8.04 and i have wine1.

I'm having the same problem and i've been trying to get sound working on steam games like TFC. How would i go about configuring alsa? I try to configure sound in wine but it gives me the same error that it cant find an audio device. please help. i love ubuntu and i want every reason not to go back to windows!!!
If you read again what I said you will know what to do.

what exactly am i supposed to be looking for?
how do i disable pulseaudio?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:29 pm

sbd_ninja wrote:
vitamin wrote:
sbd_ninja wrote:I just got Ubuntu 8.04 and i have wine1.

I'm having the same problem and i've been trying to get sound working on steam games like TFC. How would i go about configuring alsa? I try to configure sound in wine but it gives me the same error that it cant find an audio device. please help. i love ubuntu and i want every reason not to go back to windows!!!
If you read again what I said you will know what to do.
what exactly am i supposed to be looking for?
how do i disable pulseaudio?

Ask that on your distro channel. It's just another useless program that ... uses sound card. This problem has absolutely nothing to do with Wine.

Usurp · Post by **Usurp** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:46 am

vitamin wrote:
sbd_ninja wrote:
vitamin wrote: If you read again what I said you will know what to do.
what exactly am i supposed to be looking for?
how do i disable pulseaudio?
Ask that on your distro channel. It's just another useless program that ... uses sound card. This problem has absolutely nothing to do with Wine.

Pulseaudio becomes used by more and more distributions...
we cannot just ignore that and just say "too bad".
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPul ... tributions

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:00 pm

Usurp wrote:
vitamin wrote:
sbd_ninja wrote: what exactly am i supposed to be looking for?
how do i disable pulseaudio?
Ask that on your distro channel. It's just another useless program that ... uses sound card. This problem has absolutely nothing to do with Wine.
Pulseaudio becomes used by more and more distributions...
we cannot just ignore that and just say "too bad".
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPul ... tributions

Why not? It's just another sound server that has all the problems of sound server: they think they are the way of the future and every program have to use them and can't access the sound devices directly.

Same exact thing happened with ARTS. And where is it now? So the same exact thing applies to all sound servers - get rid of them as fast as you can. And don't bother using them - they don't work.