[Wine] Multiple wine crash causes no sound in Linux

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Altair <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> playing WoW without problems, I was invited to a 40 raid player for rol event. WoW crash 5 times. In all of the 5, I need to kill the process. In the 5 , all seems normal, BUT no sound.
>
> I try some music themes, some YouTube videos. No sound.
>
> I try reloggin in KDE, and no sound.
>
> Then, I try rebooting Linux. And no sound.
>
> In this point I think: żmaybe hardware problem?. Then, I reboot with 2.6.33 kernel, and I try. THEN I have sound. No sound problem with this kernel.
>
> Okay, is not a hardware malfunction
>
I would just use the new kernel if it supports your sound card.
Creative Labs cards are not the best choice for linux. You will have
better luck with motherboard sound, intel-hda, ac97 ...

John