wine users - Nov 2009 - Install Issues... winecfg crashing when entering audio tab

wine version= 1.1.32 (installed as su via yum)
OS= Fedora 11 x86_64
Onboard Audio=  VIA VT1708S (motherboard Asus M4A79XTD EVO)

Just to start I am a novice with Linux.
Pardon the wall of text, i've been troubleshooting for the last couple of
days so i've already done some troubleshooting.

Brand new system, first OS. Installed via yum as recommended on the download
page, that went smoothly. I attempted to install some applications (first
trillian then wow) and all i would get is a brief hourglass and then nothing. No
error messages or anything.

Went into winecfg, browsed through the tabs. When I tried to access the Audio
tab i would receive this error:

There is no audio driver currently specified in the registry.
A recommended driver has been selected for you.
You can use this driver or select another driver if available.
You must click Apply for the selection to take effect.
 
when I hit OK that error message i get this error message:

"The program winecfg.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to
close."

When I acknowledge this error message it just keeps coming back. I have to kill
the process to make it go away.

Rummaging through these forums I've seen the grumbles about PulseAudio and
Alsa and ran through a number of those options.Such as editing the alsa config
files to reference Pulse as a default such as
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#Wine. I have tried pasuspender as well
as padsp.

I attempted to edit the registry manually to have it match the format described
here http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys. However that entry appears to be
hopelessly out of date. A good portion of the branches are not in my registry. I
only added the branch for Alsa Driver as described in the wiki article and also
an entry for key Device with string for Device=Alsa. This was mentioned for
someone who couldn't change drivers through the gui.

When I then try to access the audio tab I get the error:

"Found driver in registry that is not available! remove 'Alsa' from
the registry?"

regardless of what i select it will then give me the "encountered a serious
problem" error listed above. Nor does it actually remove the driver entry
from the registry. When i delete the key 'Devices' I'm back to
square one.

I have editted /etc/pulse/client.conf to prevent autospawn and killed all of
Pulse. This had no effect, original error and resulting loop. I have not
actually removed pulse from the system yet.

I have tried removing and reinstalling Wine through yum (as su), it says it is
uninstalled but it never truly goes away, I can still access the registry,
config, and others.

The windows apps are just going to be a luxury for me. But this is a learning
box so i'm willing to try anything.

Thank you in advance.

taranig wrote:
> wine version= 1.1.32 (installed as su via yum)
> OS= Fedora 11 x86_64
Remove 64-bit Wine, it's not ready for prime time.

I have already tried removing it and installing some of the different packages
of wine (there were -esd and -oss) but to no avail. Configuration, registry and
all other components (as far as I can tell) are still fully functional (well,
not quite fully functional)

i did not specify 64-bit build with the initial install.

install: su -c "yum install wine"

uninstall: su -c "yum uninstall wine"

suggestions on how to cleanly and completely remove it from the system and how
to specify the 32 bit build for install through yum?

This is my only installed extra application so if a nuke and pave is required i
can wipe the drive and just reinstall the OS clean.

i can download the rpms from winehg and do a local install if i can get this old
stuff off.