[Wine]No Sound while playing games

[siddharth seth]

I use window maker 0.91 and the sound drivers are set
to OSS in the config file. Still this happens. 

And why I said that wine may be at fault. Simply
because the system wont change the sound drivers by
itself. And had there been any problem with the sound
drivers the sound wouldnt have played in the first
place. 
The problem is confounding. 

Cheers

Sid



--- Holly Bostick <motub at planet.nl> wrote:

> siddharth seth wrote:
> > Hi all
> > I have been getting this really crazy problem
> while
> > using wine. My wine version is 20050111. Last
> night I
> > installed warcraft III and the games graphics and
> > sound worked perfectly, no hassles at all.  Today
> when
> > I restarted the game there was no sound. I fiddled
> > around in the [WinMM] section of the config but
> > couldnt get the sound back.
> > 
> > Today I installed Soldiers of Fortune. Played the
> game
> > and everything again worked beautifully. Now when
> I
> > try to play it again there is no sound. 
> > 
> > I am quite confused since there is sound when I
> play
> > it the first time but subsequently no sound at
> all.
> > All my other applications (with sound ) are
> working.
> > Can some one tell me whats going on here.
> Obviously
> > its got something to do with wine. 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Sid
> >  
> 
> Hi, Sid,
> 
> Actually, I can't see how it's got anything to do
> with Wine at all. If 
> Wine played the sound properly on initial install of
> both games, then 
> Wine's sound driver is working-- and Wine doesn't
> *change* anything all 
> by itself between your executions of the program
> (afaik), so I don't get 
> how Wine could be at "fault".
> 
> What I would suspect is the possible use of a sound
> server... 
> Specifically the KDE sound server, aRTs. Now, "what
> I can think of" is 
> not the same as "all that could be going on"
> (meaning, I am no expert), 
> but the only combination of factors I can think of
> that might result in 
> something like this happening is that
> 
> 1) You use KDE and the aRTs sound server is running;
> 
> 2) You have aRTs set (in the KDE Control
> Center=>Sound and Multimedia) 
> set to stop automatically after a certain amount of
> inactive time;
> 
> 3) You have Wine set to use the winearts sound
> driver.
> 
> My main suggestion is that if you are using
> winearts.dll, change your 
> sound driver in Wine's config file to wineoss.dll
> (comment out winearts 
> and uncomment wineoss). This fixed problems I was
> having with sound 
> while using KDE, with aRTs running (which is why I
> thought I should use 
> winearts.dll, but it appears this was wrong, as it
> did not work well at 
> all). In fact, when I changed the Wine sound driver
> to OSS, I didn't 
> even have to change anything in the KDE Sound and
> Multimedia section, 
> which I thought I would have to do (either stop
> aRTs, or uncheck the 
> stop automatically blah blah blah checkbox).
> However, the Wine OSS 
> driver works perfectly without any further
> modifications to any config.
> 
> Hope this helps, otherwise please give us more
> information as to what 
> your setup is in terms of sound hardware, desktop,
> and Wine sound 
> configuration.
> 
> Holly
> 
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