Wine not seeing Alsa or MIDI

[Justin Eiler]

Greetings all! If this is a duplicate question, please accept my apologies and direct me to the solution.

Linux Mint 17.1. Rebecca, Wine 1.6.2.

When I'm working in Linux, MIDI works great, but I can't get any MIDI output in WINE, and when I look at Winecnf, all it shows for options are "(System default)" and "Pulseaudio". I'm 95% sure this is a setup problem (and 100% sure it's because I missed something somewhere), but Wine can't see Alsa, and I can't play any program that relies on MIDI.

NoteWorthy tells me "Unable to load the MIDI utility library DLL." Band in a Box tells me "Van't find sound font file GM.DLS", even though that file is in the system32/drivers folder.

Any assistance gratefully accepted ... at this point, I don't even know where to look.

[dimesio]

http://wiki.winehq.org/MIDI has some troubleshooting tips.

[Justin Eiler]

http://wiki.winehq.org/MIDI has some troubleshooting tips.

*nods* I've gone through that--it's somewhat dated, but still useful, but did not resolve my issues.

Running through the checklist:
* aconnect -o results

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justin@justin01 ~ $ aconnect -o
client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
    0 'Midi Through Port-0'
client 128: 'TiMidity' [type=user]
    0 'TiMidity port 0 '
    1 'TiMidity port 1 '
    2 'TiMidity port 2 '
    3 'TiMidity port 3 '

* aplaymidi works, provided I've started qsynth and have the midi routed correctly.
* winecnf shows only (System Default) and pulseaudio.
* wintest is sitting right there in the /windows/system32 directory, but when I try to call up the mcishell, I get an error message:

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    wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wintest.exe"

* So I can't do the last stage of the checklist.

[dimesio]

One thing you should do is upgrade your Wine version, as 1.6.2 is two years old, and there have been changes to Wine's sound drivers since then.

[Justin Eiler]

One thing you should do is upgrade your Wine version, as 1.6.2 is two years old, and there have been changes to Wine's sound drivers since then.

I tried that--and completely hosed my system, to the point of needing a reinstall.

As I said, I'm 100% sure it was a setup problem on my end--I missed a step in setting things up, or I did something I shouldn't have done, so no worries. I'm going to get the Linux side of things running before I worry about adding Wine.

Cheers!

[bramvl]

I have a similar problem. Ubuntu 16.04, Wine 1.6.2 (synaptic says it is the latest), timidity++ 2.13.2.
When Noteworthy is started it has no sound when a file is played.

[ShiftyJim21]

Hi everyone,

I'm having the exact same problem as the original poster, including his issue with the MCI shell, and I am on the latest version of Wine. If anyone has a possible solution, I would be very grateful.

- An Arch Linux noob

[DarkShadow44]

What does "aconnect -o" say?
Does aplaymidi work?
What program are you trying to run?