Hi, I succesfully installed steam and counter strike source, but whenever steam is running wine doesn't give any sound. When I go in wincfg and do "sound test" it says "error, audio test failed" for all the sound options. When I exit steam it works fine. how can i fix this? thx
oh yes, i'm running wine 1.1.1 on ubuntu 9.10
Here's my suggestion. I don't run steam, so take this with a grain of salt. I think pulseaudio is screwing you up. In terminal: sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf Uncomment the following line and change to "no" ; autospawn = yes autospawn = no reboot Then, before you start anything else, in terminal type killall pulseaudio Then see if that works. -----Original Message----->From: Jemain <wineforum-user at winehq.org> >Sent: Oct 30, 2009 9:34 AM >To: wine-users at winehq.org >Subject: [Wine] Steam sound problem > >Hi, > >I succesfully installed steam and counter strike source, but whenever steam is running wine doesn't give any sound. >When I go in wincfg and do "sound test" it says "error, audio test failed" for all the sound options. >When I exit steam it works fine. how can i fix this? > >thx > > > > >
Jemain wrote:> i'm running wine 1.1.1This is too old, upgrade. Anything older then wine-1.1.23 won't run Steam. Latest Wine version is wine-1.1.32.
I update to 1.1.32, but the problem still exists. Also tried the other thing. Please someone help, it all runs fine but only the sound :(
I ran the following: Code: padsp winecfg Then I went to the sound tab, and in the console it printed: Code: fixme:jack:JACK_drvLoad error loading the jack library libjack.so.0, please install this library to use jack I bet thats the problem :p
>Jemain wrote: >> I've got my sound working, but now its laggy where it was perfect before. >> ubuntu karmic 9.10 wine 1.1.31 > >If you haven't read it, I'll repeat: disable/kill/remove/uninstall pulseaudio. It's the source of all sound problems (and not only with Wine).There may be problems completely removing pulseaudio in Karmic Koala. It's tied in too closely to the desktop environment. There are bugs about this, and I've complained bitterly. Many people hate pulseaudio, not just wine users, and have suggested making it an option. They have also switched to Ubuntu distros that don't include it by default, such as Xubuntu. Unfortunately, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio both have it. Here's what I do to run audio applications in wine. in terminal: sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf uncomment and change this line as follows: ; autospawn = yes autospawn = no (Otherwise killing pulseaudio has no effect, it just re-starts automatically.) In terminal, every time you boot up, type: killall pulseaudio I have created a little script with a button on my taskbar to do this. Pushing this button and killing pulseaudio has become the best part of my day.
I seem to be having the exact same problem getting sound working under Wine. I'm using a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 and Wine 1.1.31 (which is the latest version available via the Synaptic Package Manager). Following the 'disable Pulseaudio' advice in this thread and elsewhere online does more harm than good in that it totally stops all Ubuntu sound output (Other people's mileage may vary of course - I can only test my own computer, but there doesn't seem to be another sound subsystem installed by default that would take over when Pulse is killed.) All this bang-head-against-brick-wall-until-dead-or-everything-works malarkey is fairly new to me, but I'll report back if I stumble blindly onto something that fixes it. ... and I know this is probably not the place to gripe. It seems to be Ubuntu that have moved the goalposts on this one, not WineHQ :(
Huh. Well... it seems to have started working now. To the best of my knowledge I did the following (mostly random) things: 1) tried the command: padsp winecfg ... on the offchance Jemain was onto something * Googled some error messages I received about ALSA failing but tried none of the suggestions(!) I should have taken note of the messages... my apologies; One was about a PCM volume control failing to load and the other was about BT87x which I assume is the onboard sound on my ancient Soltek Motherboard * I tried toggling the sound output in Ubuntu's sound control panel to 'output' from 'duplex' * Ran explorer.exe, regedit.exe and hh.exe just to see what would happen * While regedit was still running, I tried changing the sound driver from ALSA - where it had defaulted, to OSS. I could see the settings changing in the Wine registry. * Back in the config dialog, I opened out the branches on the tree of options below OSS and clicked on the entries and then 'Test Sound' After that list of seemingly random clickery, somehow sound is working. The only major change was the 'duplex' to 'output', but I've since changed that back and sound in Wine is still working... and PulseAudio is still running. I may yet report back saying it's broken again, but we'll see. Or hear. Or something. :)