sound enabled but no driver checked

Cihan Altinay cihan at uq.edu.au
Wed Dec 21 05:52:57 CST 2005


Robert Reif wrote:
> Cihan Altinay wrote:
> 
>> Quoting Robert Reif <reif at earthlink.net>:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Cihan Altinay wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> With a fresh wine prefix sound is enabled but I can't
>>>> see which driver is used because none of them is checked
>>>> in the new winecfg sound dialog.
>>>> Did we forget to initialize the boxes on first run?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Cihan
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Use regedit to show HKCU/Software/wine/Drivers/Audio.
>>> Chances are it's empty (no drivers checked) so sound is
>>> disabled. It could be set to a driver that is not available
>>> but winecfg checks for that and should give you an error.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Well... the key doesn't exist unless I run winecfg at least once
>> and change something. In that case it's not really important because
>> a user will probably do that anyway.
>> The only minor issue would be that someone runs winecfg for the first
>> time and is satisfied with the defaults (no driver checked -> sound off)
>> so without any changes he dismisses winecfg. And in this case it seems
>> one of the drivers is used by default (sound on).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cihan
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> I have a patch to fix this.  OSS is the default if there is no registry
> key.

Great! Will you submit it?



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