error opening winecfg

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:12 am

I updated my distro from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 yesterday. I did not
update wine because the version it wants to use is 1.1.23 and I remember
several posts of people having trouble with either .23 or .24.

All of my games and office/work programs run fine through wine, but the
wine cfg window will not start up. I get:

ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No
such file or directory

With 'alsa' in there and from what I could find on google I am guessing
that is a sound something but I'm not sure where to go from there. All
my wine sound in games (WoW,COH,Eve) works fine.

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy · Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:12 am

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM, tparker<[email protected]> wrote:

I updated my distro from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 yesterday. I did not update
wine because the version it wants to use is 1.1.23 and I remember several
posts of people having trouble with either .23 or .24.

Actually 1.1.23 has some issues... better try with 1.1.27 (you can
always revert in case of big problems)

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:13 pm

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy wrote:On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM,

Actually 1.1.23 has some issues... better try with 1.1.27 (you can
always revert in case of big problems)[/quote]

Thank you, I may end having to give git another try to build a 1.1.27 to use, but I would rather find what the problem with winecfg is and fix it. The 1.1.20 I am using the the install from the distribution package manager and is usually very stable. I would like to keep it updating with the rest of the system, at least once the repository version gets past 1.1.23 so I can skip that one.

I found some references to similar winecfg errors through Google, but nothing exactly like that one or with a solution to try.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:00 pm

tparker wrote:winecfg window will not start up.

Try with separate WINEPREFIX. Ex:
WINEPREFIX=~/wine-test wine winecfg

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:32 am

On 08/11/2009 12:00 AM, vitamin wrote:

Try with separate WINEPREFIX. Ex:
WINEPREFIX=~/wine-test wine winecfg

Thank you. I just tried that and still got the same error as before,
plus a comment about Mozilla, but the winecfg window did open. I'm not
sure what it working this way means, though.

The complete info given in the terminal when doing what you said was:

wine: created the configuration directory '/home/tparker/wine-test'

ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No
such file or directory
Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
wine: configuration in '/home/tparker/wine-test' has been updated.
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No
such file or directory

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:41 am

On 08/11/2009 12:00 AM, vitamin wrote:

tparker wrote:
winecfg window will not start up.
Try with separate WINEPREFIX. Ex:
WINEPREFIX=~/wine-test wine winecfg

I guess I spoke too soon. Using the separate WINEPREFIX the window did
open winecfg, but when I tried to change to the audio tab to check a
setting it crashed, the same way ventrilo does (vent is also giving me
the same error: ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open
/dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:58 pm

tparker wrote:Using the separate WINEPREFIX the window did open winecfg, but when I tried to change to the audio tab to check a setting it crashed, the same way ventrilo does

Then something is wrong with either Wine or the different sound libraries it's compiled with. I guess you have to update Wine, or compile it yourself for the new distro.

mushroomboy · Post by **mushroomboy** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:47 pm

I used to get the same error when I had 1.1.26 of the debian version installed through synaptic. Though in my case it didn't crash, just complained... =S Either way, I compiled to 1.1.27 anyways and it went away.

mmooij · Post by **mmooij** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:51 am

In Fedora 11 the ALSA sound sequencer isn't created at start up (due to migration to UDEV).

Solution:
Create the file dist-alsa.conf containing:

# Make midi applications work on systems with a soundcard:
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq

in /etc/modprobe.d.

After system reboot the /dev/snd/seq device should be available.