No sound (Audio test failed)

frankh · Post by **frankh** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:41 am

- Computer: Lenovo W510
- Linux distro: Mint/Ubuntu 11 64-bit
- Wine version: Latest wine from the Ubuntu repositories

Wine installs fine, but sound doesn't work at all. In winecfg, under Audio, whe I click the Test Sound button I get this error message:

Audio test failed

The console outputs the following:
fixme:msg:pack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet

So, sound simply doesn't work, and I cannot find a single thing about it on the internet with solutions newer then 4 years. Ie, no usable information at all.

So - does anyone here have any ideas? I take it the Wine developers doesn't give any support, and it's up to the users, but maybe someone has experienced this and was able to solve it?

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:11 am

On 6/26/11 6:41 AM, frankh wrote:

- Computer: Lenovo W510
- Linux distro: Mint/Ubuntu 11 64-bit
- Wine version: Latest wine from the Ubuntu repositories

Wine installs fine, but sound doesn't work at all. In winecfg, under Audio, whe I click the Test Sound button I get this error message:

Audio test failed

Did you enable any of the sound systems, like ALSA?

frankh · Post by **frankh** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:32 am

You mean in winecfg -> Audio? I tried every one of them (although OSS is the one I'm after), with the same result.

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:13 am

frankh wrote: So, sound simply doesn't work, and I cannot find a single thing about it on the internet with solutions newer then 4 years. Ie, no usable information at all.

Apparently you overlooked the "No Sound in Wine" sticky at the top of the forum.

You mean in winecfg -> Audio? I tried every one of them (although OSS is the one I'm after), with the same result.

Current Wine requires OSSv4; make sure that's what you have installed. You also may need to compile Wine yourself; IIRC, someone reported awhile ago that OSS support was missing from the Ubuntu packages and I'm not sure if that was ever fixed.

frankh · Post by **frankh** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:18 am

Ok, thanks.

madpredator · Post by **madpredator** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:38 am

I have also really strange situation. I've been looking for answers days now.
First I have Ubuntu Studio 10.10. I had perfectly working and running wine. Then I had to do some really "necessary" updates and my wine lost sound. Cannot perform audio test no more. At this point I had wine 1.3. But all programs and games are running smooth (without sound). Then I tried different commands in terminal without any luck. Finally I decided to try older wine 1.2. This time audio test was working smooth but now I cannot open anything anymore, it says I have no permission to open exe file. How is this possible? With wine 1.3 I have no sound, with 1.2 I have sound but no permission? Please help me!

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:21 pm

On 11/16/2011 09:38 AM, madpredator wrote:

With wine 1.3 I have no sound, with 1.2 I have sound but no permission

Can you post the actual wine version - "1.3.?" ?

madpredator · Post by **madpredator** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:32 pm

yes, sure.. I have Wine 1.3.28..
and its running every program and game I've tried..
just without sound..
test audio error

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:40 pm

madpredator wrote:yes, sure.. I have Wine 1.3.28..
and its running every program and game I've tried..
just without sound..
test audio error

Upgrade to the latest development release, currently 1.3.32, and read the sticky at the top of the forum about what to do if your sound stopped working in 1.3.25. If you are using PulseAudio, make sure the version of alsa-plugins you have is 1.0.24 or newer.

madpredator · Post by **madpredator** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 6:10 pm

Upgrading Wine worked for me. Thanks a lot!!!

madpredator · Post by **madpredator** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:21 pm

I got everything to work until first boot. Now I lost audio at all. Wine is working again without any sound. Anybody knows how to remove all the audio drivers (cause I don't know anymore what I have done) and set up my ubuntu studio 10.10 to play sound in wine and in overall? Right now it seems to play only in wine or only everywhere else, but not at the same time. thanks!!!

dardack · Post by **dardack** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:44 am

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:21 PM, madpredator <[email protected]> wrote:

I got everything to work until first boot. Now I lost audio at all. Wine is working again without any sound. Anybody knows how to remove all the audio drivers (cause I don't know anymore what I have done) and set up my ubuntu studio 10.10 to play sound in wine and in overall? Right now it seems to play only in wine or only everywhere else, but not at the same time. thanks!!!

Did you make sure your wine-pulse plugin was 1.0.24+?

If it is, you can try:

forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=13182&start=64

Don't do all of that. I had special circumstances with Pulse. Some
people reported that sound worked up to the line:

then in terminal:
Code:
WINEPREFIX="your prefix path here" regedit alsareg.reg

Open winecfg go to audio tab and make sure Alsa is checked and
Emulation is selected. (EDIT This is outdated, winecfg doesn't have
these options anymore)

Stop there. Don't compile Pulse!

I had special things going on with my machine and needed to compile
new pulse.

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MacNean C. Tyrrell