wine users - Oct 2009 - can't open /dv/snd/seq - missing something???

I'm following the directions in

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13563

to get Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) 10-standard working on cruncheee
08.10.  I already installed Wine 1.1.30 via ubuntu PPA.

The next step is to download winetricks and run it.  An error
message occurs when I use winetricks.  I.e.

  $ sh winetricks gdiplus fontfix
  ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file
or directory
  ...stuffs deleted...

I get an error message complaining it didn't see /dev/snd/seq and mentioned
ALSA.
So I decide to use winecfg to change to OSS (I have to change to OSS anyway for
DNS).
When I start up winecfg, I get the same error message saying I can't open
/dev/snd/seq .

Fyi, I'm running cruncheee 08.10, an eee version of #! (crunchbang) 08.10,
which is
an openbox implementation of ubuntu 08.10 .  Thus I am running a modified
version of #! which has the sound modules stripped out.  What library or utility
am I missing?

Fyi, I'm running cruncheee 8.10 on this eee 701 4G laptop.  And the
lspci and lsmod outputs are

http://shengchieh.50webs.com/Laptoplspci.txt
http://shengchieh.50webs.com/Laptoplsmod.txt

Thank in advanced for any help.

Sheng-Chieh

p.s. Searching the !# and Wine forums for /dev/snd/seq didn't help.

p.s. I'm hesitant to install #1 9.04 because sun-java will not work.
I could try opengeeu, wattOS, or easy peasy if needed.  I do want to
have an ubuntu based distro that is lightweight.  But first step:
is there an easy way to fix the error I have now?

shengchieh wrote:
> I'm following the directions in
>
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13563
>
> to get Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) 10-standard working on cruncheee
> 08.10.  I already installed Wine 1.1.30 via ubuntu PPA.
>
> The next step is to download winetricks and run it.  An error
> message occurs when I use winetricks.  I.e.
>
>   $ sh winetricks gdiplus fontfix
>   ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such
file or directory
>   ...stuffs deleted...
>
> I get an error message complaining it didn't see /dev/snd/seq and
mentioned ALSA.
> So I decide to use winecfg to change to OSS (I have to change to OSS anyway
for DNS).
> When I start up winecfg, I get the same error message saying I can't
open /dev/snd/seq .
>
> Fyi, I'm running cruncheee 08.10, an eee version of #! (crunchbang)
08.10, which is
> an openbox implementation of ubuntu 08.10 .  Thus I am running a modified
> version of #! which has the sound modules stripped out.  What library or
utility
> am I missing?
>   
You have to go to a version that has sound enabled or you are not going
to have sound.  ALSA/OSS will not work with just pcspeaker.

James McKenzie

Thank you for replying.

Is there an easy way for me to add the sound library (ies)?
Or it is just easier to change distro?

Sheng-Chieh