wine users - Feb 2011 - No sound in wine with Ubuntu 10.10, native sound works fine

Hello, i am a new Linux user as of last weekend. I successfully built my first
computer and installed Ubuntu 10.10 and wine 1.2. I am using the hdmi out on my
nvidia gtx 460 graphics card with on-board  which works fine with standard
pulseaudio for all tested native apps (system sounds, hulu on firefox, warzone
2100). I have tried every combination of winecfg audio tab settings as well as
disabling and killing pulse audio. I have added my user to the audio group. I
have purged and re-installed several times. I even reformatted the hd and
re-installed ubuntu. No matter what i do the sound test failed, and i get this
message:

fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA NVidia, disabling
mixer

I bet this is something simple, but i just can't seem to get it working.
Before i accessed the audio tab, rome:total war was running perfectly on highest
settings(without sound). Once i configured sound, it crashes before the first
screen(looking for sound i guess). I can provide any terminal output need, of
course. I can't go back to windows <shudder>

Any ideas? Non-sound wine-apps run perfectly, like Sketchup 8.

Ryan4200782 wrote:
> Any ideas? Non-sound wine-apps run perfectly, like Sketchup 8.
The usual culprit is PulseAudio, and while it seemed to work better with Wine
for awhile, recent versions of Ubuntu seem to have big problems with it. You say
you tried disabling it, but have you tried removing it entirely from your
system?

Can you reccomend a good guide for that? I did try removing pulseaudio
completely based on some directions posted on a site not directly linked with
Ubuntu. I believe I installed some alsa packages, and native sounds still worked
but did not do anything for wine. It was after trying this and some other
things(winepulse)that I reformated the hard drive so as to have a
"clean" install for troubleshooting. However if there is a reccomended
guide for removing pulseaudio I will certainly try it(or anything else) again.

I tried the stable version(1.2) previously, no effect. Suggestions?

Ryan4200782 wrote:
> Ok, i have used apt-get remove --purge wine and removed all wine packages
in synaptic.
This is not how you actually clean up Wine. The old, corrupt registry may still
actually be there.

You want a clean slate, just remove/rename the $HOME/.wine directory.

Is rm .wine -R incorrect? Seemed to remove the wine directory. Not worried about
the wine directory, no applications installed right now.

I use built-in (also Intel HD) audio and both laptop speakers and plugging in
something in the analog jack works just fine. But I don't see how it has a
relation to this thread specifically? You should probably have made a new thread
since using USB audio can make the problem of a different kind. Heck, if PA
and/or ALSA can't detect it, it's effectively a distro problem and you
should ask on your distro forum.

Anyway, to answer your question, maybe it's not detecting your headset, not
every audio device is supported after all. Look around on the web if ALSA is
supposed to support your USB headset (because it's ALSA that handles sound
hardware, not PulseAudio, which is just supposed to be a mixer).

If your USB headset is supposed to just work, PulseAudio might not be picking it
up, I've encountered such oddities before. Try removing PA and using a
purely ALSA-based volume control application to check it out in that case.

Ryan4200782 wrote:
> 
> Code:
> 
> err:winecfg:set_config_key Unable to set configuration key
L"Audio" in section L"Drivers", res=6
> err:winecfg:set_config_key Unable to set configuration key
L"DefaultSampleRate" in section L"DirectSound", res=6
> err:winecfg:set_config_key Unable to set configuration key
L"Audio" in section L"Drivers", res=6
> 
> 
> 
> 
This looks like a problem in writing to the registry. What happens if you try to
set those keys yourself using regedit?

Ryan4200782 wrote:
> 
> Then re-booted and entered winecfg:
> 
Yes you are new to Linux :D, you don't have to reboot when you delete,
install something (beside kernelupdates).


Further if you have some normal analog speakers around or some headset(but no
USB stuff), try it through them. I wouldnt trust in HDMI Audio.