[Wine] can't open /dv/snd/seq - missing something???

[James McKenzie]

shengchieh wrote:
> I'm following the directions in
>
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13563
>
> to get Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) 10-standard working on cruncheee
> 08.10.  I already installed Wine 1.1.30 via ubuntu PPA.
>
> The next step is to download winetricks and run it.  An error
> message occurs when I use winetricks.  I.e.
>
>   $ sh winetricks gdiplus fontfix
>   ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory
>   ...stuffs deleted...
>
> I get an error message complaining it didn't see /dev/snd/seq and mentioned ALSA.  
> So I decide to use winecfg to change to OSS (I have to change to OSS anyway for DNS).
> When I start up winecfg, I get the same error message saying I can't open /dev/snd/seq .
>
> Fyi, I'm running cruncheee 08.10, an eee version of #! (crunchbang) 08.10, which is
> an openbox implementation of ubuntu 08.10 .  Thus I am running a modified
> version of #! which has the sound modules stripped out.  What library or utility
> am I missing?
>   
You have to go to a version that has sound enabled or you are not going
to have sound.  ALSA/OSS will not work with just pcspeaker.

James McKenzie