Multiple wine crash causes no sound in Linux

[Altair]

Hello,

playing WoW without problems, I was invited to a 40 raid player for rol event. WoW crash 5 times. In all of the 5, I need to kill the process. In the 5 , all seems normal, BUT no sound.

I try some music themes, some YouTube videos. No sound.

I try reloggin in KDE, and no sound.

Then, I try rebooting Linux. And no sound.

In this point I think: ¿maybe hardware problem?. Then, I reboot with 2.6.33 kernel, and I try. THEN I have sound. No sound problem with this kernel.

Okay, is not a hardware malfunction

Then, I reboot with the normal kernel. NO SOUND.

I am using the 2.6.30 kernel. I know the more recent kernel is 2.6.33, but I tested it and my machine is more fast with de 2.6.30.

Kernel 2.6.30
02:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
Debian stable

P.D.: sorry my poor english.

[Altair]

Add some details

wine-1.1.30, I know existe more new version, but with this I no have problem.

I make one try about sound with other user, create for make test about this. No sound with this user. This, using 2.6.30 kernel.

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Altair <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello,

playing WoW without problems, I was invited to a 40 raid player for rol event. WoW crash 5 times. In all of the 5, I need to kill the process. In the 5 , all seems normal, BUT no sound.

I try some music themes, some YouTube videos. No sound.

I try reloggin in KDE, and no sound.

Then, I try rebooting Linux. And no sound.

In this point I think: żmaybe hardware problem?. Then, I reboot with 2.6.33 kernel, and I try. THEN I have sound. No sound problem with this kernel.

Okay, is not a hardware malfunction

I would just use the new kernel if it supports your sound card.
Creative Labs cards are not the best choice for linux. You will have
better luck with motherboard sound, intel-hda, ac97 ...

John

[Altair]

I dont want to use a more new kernel because my pc runs very slow.

I used windows xp in this pc many years, this is one reason for I have a sound blaster card. Later, I change windows for linux.

In normal use in linux, I view movies, cd music, songs, etc. All withouth problems of sound

[DaVince]

I dont want to use a more new kernel because my pc runs very slow.

A kernel upgrade isn't like an upgrade from XP to Vista - it's barely, or not, slower than previous versions.

Recompiling a newer kernel can make it more compatible (new drivers, for example for sound cards) and faster (because it'll be optimized for your PC and optionally leave out anything you don't need). In my experience - get that new kernel, it usually makes things better, not worse.

I mean heck, the latest kernel does just fine on a 400 Mhz Pentium 2...

[Altair]

I dont want to use a more new kernel because my pc runs very slow.

A kernel upgrade isn't like an upgrade from XP to Vista - it's barely, or not, slower than previous versions.

Recompiling a newer kernel can make it more compatible (new drivers, for example for sound cards) and faster (because it'll be optimized for your PC and optionally leave out anything you don't need). In my experience - get that new kernel, it usually makes things better, not worse.

I mean heck, the latest kernel does just fine on a 400 Mhz Pentium 2...

Yes, usually a new kernel is a more efficient pc. New drivers version, etc.

But in my computer, at this moment, the more fast kernel is 2.6.30. WoW (world of warcraft game), runs normal with this kernel.

In this moment, I am using 2.6.32 kernel. I have sound. But WoW is slow.

Y test with some latest nvidia drivers,.

I think when wine crash, some file (or files) was corrupted. I recompile the kernel 2.6.30 for rests, and no sound. And wow runs normal.

[ahso]

it might be because of pulseaudio. I had somehow similar and simply deselected pulseaudio on opensuse. on other distro you might have to kill pulse or such.

[Altair]

Maybe is pulseaudio. I purge and reinstall and now I have sound again.

Solved. Thanks for all people.