wine users - Apr 2010 - Error running program; might fix my HDMI problem as well

I am trying to run a program my friend lend me yesterday. 

I installed it through wine and it was successful. I just got one problem and
that was running it. I ran the error log command and this is what I got.


Code:
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA ATI HDMI, disabling
mixer



I believe this might also fix my HDMI port problem as well. My problem is that I
have to log off in order for the HDMI port to completely work. Maybe this will
help with that problem.

PhazzedOut wrote:
> I am trying to run a program my friend lend me yesterday. 
> 
> I installed it through wine and it was successful. I just got one problem
and that was running it. I ran the error log command and this is what I got.
> 
> 
> Code:
> fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA ATI HDMI,
disabling mixer
> 
> 
> 
> I believe this might also fix my HDMI port problem as well. My problem is
that I have to log off in order for the HDMI port to completely work. Maybe this
will help with that problem.

It's just a fixme. You can ignore it and keep logging in and out. Usually on
my system that happens because of npviewer.bin, the FLASH plugin wrapper has
gone to sleep after taking control over the mixer. Sometimes simply killing
npviewer.bin will fix it without logging off. If it bugs me, I'll uninstall
flash. I don't use it except to view ads anyway.

If this does not fix your problem then we can dig a little...

Does your ALSA setup even have a mixer?
amixer -c0 # card 0
amixer -c0|grep Master
Simple mixer control 'Master',0

Is pulseaudio running?
ps -A|grep pulseaudio
01:03:50 pulseaudio

If you have pulseaudio running, there is an alsa mixer device for pulseaudio
that can be obtained in a separate package, alsa-plugins-pulseaudio or sometimes
packaged under other names, depending on the distro.

The other option is to disable pulseaudio and configure alsa.
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=1457

Finally, if there is no pulseaudio then maybe there is no hardware mixer
(control)
cat /proc/asound/devices |grep control
9: [ 0]   : control

If there is a control then maybe alsa just isn't configured. If not, then
any of the available software mixers could be used. I don't know...dmix?
Does anybody still use that?