Forcing Wine To Use Audio Device/Mixer

Falcata · Post by **Falcata** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:57 pm

Well, I've got multiple sound devices on my system (integrated HDA SB ATI sound card, headset connected to USB sound card, and my webcam's built-in mic). Unfortunately, Wine does not always use my integrated sound device for some reason. So, instead it will do one of two things: go to the headset or the webcam. Going to the webcam is an auto-fail, and if it goes to the headset it prevents me from using Skype. Or, if skype is already running, I get no sound in Wine apps.

The problem is also unusual because of how the game, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, behaves. It will use the normal audio on the game's launch window, but switches to one of the other devices when the game itself starts. Is there any command-line option, environment variable, or registry key I can use to force wine to always use a specific sound device or mixer?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:42 pm

Falcata wrote:The problem is also unusual because of how the game, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, behaves. It will use the normal audio on the game's launch window, but switches to one of the other devices when the game itself starts. Is there any command-line option, environment variable, or registry key I can use to force wine to always use a specific sound device or mixer?

Sounds kind of strange. Are you using ALSA sound and you have a working dmix?

You can force Wine to use particular sound card / channel of ALSA: http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

Falcata · Post by **Falcata** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:00 am

Running winecfg from command line gives me this bit of information:

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fixme:wave:ALSA_ComputeCaps Device has a minimum of 2 channels
fixme:wave:ALSA_ComputeCaps Device has a minimum of 2 channels
fixme:wave:ALSA_ComputeCaps Device has a minimum of 2 channels
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find 'PCM Playback Volume' element
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on USB Device 0x46d:0x9a1, disabling mixer
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on C-Media USB Headphone Set  , disabling mixer

Also, here's my /proc/asound/cards file:

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 0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xf9ff4000 irq 16
 1 [U0x46d0x9a1    ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x9a1
                      USB Device 0x46d:0x9a1 at usb-0000:00:12.2-1, high speed
 2 [default        ]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Headphone Set  
                      C-Media USB Headphone Set   at usb-0000:00:13.0-3, full speed

Falcata · Post by **Falcata** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:06 am

And here's my aplay -l:

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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC662 Analog [ALC662 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC662 Digital [ALC662 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: default [C-Media USB Headphone Set  ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

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