Gentoo, ALSA built as module, no sound in wine (Wow)

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:19 pm

i have sound in KDE, etc, but no sound in Wow. i have both alsa and oss tabs checked in winecfg.

suggestions?

kernel 2.6.28-r4
wine 1.17
wow 3.06

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:25 pm

h2sammo wrote:i have sound in KDE, etc, but no sound in Wow. i have both alsa and oss tabs checked in winecfg.

Use only one or the other.
Did you killed / removed any sound servers, like pulseaudio?

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:47 pm

gentoo doesnt use pulseaudio i checked if it was installed. i dont think it is using any soudn derver.

i had tried with alsa checked only (even though to use vent i would need both enabled...right?!) and it did not work either.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:44 pm

h2sammo wrote:it did not work either.

Then you have something else running that's using sound. Kill anything using /dev/snd/pcm*

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:28 pm

how would i check for that?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:03 pm

h2sammo wrote:how would i check for that?

lsof

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:25 pm

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localhost bobby # lsof
bash: lsof: command not found

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:35 pm

h2sammo wrote:
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localhost bobby # lsof
bash: lsof: command not found

You need to install it then.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:59 pm

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:25 PM, h2sammo <[email protected]> wrote:

Code:
localhost bobby # lsof
bash: lsof: command not found

emerge -av lsof

John

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:57 am

i emerged it, gives a HUGE list.
i thinks its useless however because i dont run wow in KDE, i starts it as its own X server with xinit. i wouldnt have any of these processes running.
how should i proceed?

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:19 am

h2sammo wrote:i had tried with alsa checked only (even though to use vent i would need both enabled...right?!)

No. Both ALSA and OSS can be considered big, independent systems to handle sound. You can't use both simultaneously or things would become a mess...

It's a bit of a hack, but you might try setting winecfg to OSS and then run your app like:
aoss wine appname.exe

aoss is a compatibility layer (?) in ALSA that receives OSS-like input and provides ALSA-like output. Or try using only OSS before that, though that might not work because a lot of modern distros stop providing OSS these days (it's pretty old).

I'm probably factually wrong here and there, but I hope you at least know why enabling both in Wine is not a good idea.

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:32 am

ok kde uses kmix as a mixer, i put PCM to max and now i have sound.
i cant use the mic though, i have to figure out how to test the mic, any idea

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:37 pm

Wait, so the only reason you had no sound is because PCM was set to 0? That's... well, a lot simpler than what the problem was thought to be.

I don't think microphone input works yet in Wine, but then again I'm not the person who can assure you this as my mic will only work in Linux when I use very specific mixer settings. Try testing if it works in Linux before Wine though.