wine users - Jun 2009 - Getting programs to detect my soundcard

I have a problem, that some programs don't detect my soundcard. Sound works
fine in others, but they don't detect it, and refuse to start because of it.
Usually the crash logs tell me to make sure that the sound card is enabled, and
when listing the hardware, everything else is correctly listed, except the sound
card , which shows like:

Code:
Sound :  () 



How can I configure wine, so that it detects the soundcard , or at least
identifies the it as some other soundcard (I have a Realtek AC 97, but if it
would identify, as some other soundcard, the program would start). I also did a
search the matter, but couldn't find a solution.

Fredczhy wrote:
> I have a problem, that some programs don't detect my soundcard.
Wine doesn't talk to sound card directly but via ALSA/OSS drivers.

If sound is working for you for native Linux programs, then you have some
program that uses sound card in exclusive mode. Most likely that's a sound
server like pulse audio. See sticky post for more details on what to do with
that.