I just installed steam+TMN and it seems to run quite well apart from sound. I tried switching to OSS and got not sound while on ALSA I get the occasional "click" and thats about it. Other software I have run through wine is WAR beta and WoW both of which play sound fine, so I suspect maybe Steam is holding up the sound device or something? I am on Ubuntu Hardy. I also used winetricks to install DX9, corefonts etc. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Hi, when it come to steam sound I've also been through allot. After many experiments, I figured that the best thing to do was to, firstly do everything in this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578) topic, getting pulseaudio to work. After that I constantly tried to use the padsp tehcnique. that is, select OSS and then do padsp steam to run it, but it constantly crashed my whole ubuntu system. So I end up by thinking that I could route the sound first through ALSA and then through Pulseaudio, so I used aoss (I think I had to find some package). So, if you'd like to do this this way here's what to do. First, go to: ]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578 and do everything except for equalizer (unless you wish it) Then, go to the console (terminal and type): Code: aoss winecfg select audio tab and choose aoss Now, whenever you wish to launch steam (or any wine app) just do: Code: cd path_to_application aoss wine application I usually create bash script that also handle extra stuff that some apps need. BE AWARE THAT PULSEAUDIO IS NOT RECOMMENDED BY WINE DEVS. I am only posting this to help you. Why doesn't sound work you may ask? Well, as you can only have sound from one app at a time, steam captures the sound, so that when starting a game it will not have sound, because it's already taken. Note: If you try ALSA in winecfg and it works, it has happened to me but sound doesn't work in other apps. (untested in most recent versions) Good Luck, Jorl17
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:07 PM, burkey <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I just installed steam+TMN and it seems to run quite well apart from sound. >I'm not sure which TrackMania version is on Steam, but in order to get TrackMania Nations Forever to work under Wine, I had to follow the Howto on the appdb page that involved replacing a OpenAL DLL (wrap_oal.dll) in the game's directory... The test results and howto also differ on certain DirectX DLL's that need replacement (If yours start, it should not be neccesary...) http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11592&iTestingId=23711 and http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=7072 Gert
Gert van den Berg wrote:> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:07 PM, burkey <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > I just installed steam+TMN and it seems to run quite well apart from sound. > > > > > I'm not sure which TrackMania version is on Steam, but in order to get > TrackMania Nations Forever to work under Wine, I had to follow the > Howto on the appdb page that involved replacing a OpenAL DLL > (wrap_oal.dll) in the game's directory... > > The test results and howto also differ on certain DirectX DLL's that > need replacement (If yours start, it should not be neccesary...) > http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11592&iTestingId=23711 > and > http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=7072 > > GertHm, it could also be the cause, maybe a missbehaving OpenAL driver...who knows? Good luck, be sure to check my tutorial (or just tell me if you can have sound in other apps launched from steam)