wine users - Jan 2012 - Sound always disabled in AoE II: AoK

Hi all!
First my system info:
Wine version: 1.3.28
OS: Ubuntu 11.10
Graphics: Mobile Intel GMA X3100

The problem basically is that I am getting no sound when I play AoE II: AoK. The
game starts and works otherwise fine, except for the sound bit.

When I look in the game's Options menu, both Sound Volume and Music Volume
sliders are down and it shows Off. I can move the sliders up, but it neither
starts the sounds, nor does it save the setting.

I followed the instructions given here
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=147) and here
(http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=1457), but no luck.

I am not really confident enough to try anything I find on the internet, so any
help I receive here will be much appreciated. Thanks!

P.S: There was an issue with the screen flickering through colors, but I managed
to fix it using:

Code:
DirectDrawRenderer=gdi


in Winetricks ==> Default Wineprefix ==> Change settings.

Ok this is weird. I was looking around on my own and found this.

There is no Driver Selection box in Wine Configuration ==> Audio tab. Only
the Direct Sound box is present. Does this have something to do with why I
can't get audio?

Here are a couple of screenshots:
1. AoE Options screen:

[Image: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9810/screenshotaudiooff.png ]

2. Wine Audio Config screen:

[Image: http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5634/wineconfigaudio.png ]

Hope that helps.

CapriKornus wrote:
> Wine version: 1.3.28
> 
Upgrade to the current development release (1.3.36).