No sound with wine 1.4/1.5 on f16

[patrick]

I have the i686 version of wine and its dependencies installed on an x86_64 install on F16. Sound in wine does not work .

If I "Test Sound" under the Audio tab of winecfg I get what I can only describe as a puff of static, like a farting sound (excuse me). winecfg lists the selected driver as winealsa.drv. This happens in Win7 mode as well as WinXP mode.

I have tried with a fresh wine prefix with the same result.

All the windows programs I try to run with wine are silent.

If I use pasuspender to run winecfg, the "Test Sound" button produces no sound at all.

root@poodora:/home/patrick# rpm -qa | grep wine
wine-marlett-fonts-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-wow-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
wine-courier-fonts-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-ldap-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
wine-system-fonts-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-cms-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
wine-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
wine-desktop-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-common-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-symbol-fonts-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-fonts-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-core-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
wine-openal-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
wine-tahoma-fonts-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-capi-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
wine-small-fonts-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-twain-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
wine-ms-sans-serif-fonts-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch
wine-alsa-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
wine-systemd-1.5.0-2.fc16.noarch

root@poodora:/home/patrick# rpm -qa | grep pulse
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.23-1.fc16.i686
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.23-1.fc16.i686
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.25-3.fc16.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.25-3.fc16.i686
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.23-1.fc16.i686
pulseaudio-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64

root@poodora:/home/patrick# rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-firmware-1.0.25-1.fc16.noarch
alsa-lib-1.0.25-1.fc16.x86_64
alsa-tools-firmware-1.0.25-1.fc16.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.25-3.fc16.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.25-3.fc16.i686
wine-alsa-1.5.0-2.fc16.i686
alsa-utils-1.0.25-7.fc16.x86_64
alsa-lib-1.0.25-1.fc16.i686

I tried forcing the removal of the wine-pulseaudio.i686 package to see if it was causing trouble (some wine people suggested this) and it makes no difference.

Thank you for any help!

[sandwormusmc]

Originally Posted by patrick

I have the i686 version of wine and its dependencies installed on an x86_64 install on F16. Sound in wine does not work .

If I "Test Sound" under the Audio tab of winecfg I get what I can only describe as a puff of static, like a farting sound (excuse me). winecfg lists the selected driver as winealsa.drv. This happens in Win7 mode as well as WinXP mode.
...

I got here through a Google search for "wine alsa sounds like a fart", so thanks for using that description of the sound. I'm getting the same thing, and sound in my Civ5 game sounds like a series of farts mixed with what should be the actual sound.

I'm replying here in case someone beats me to finding a solution ...

[solo2101]

try a restarting the computer.

[sandwormusmc]

Originally Posted by solo2101

try a restarting the computer.

Your reply makes me sad ...

[solo2101]

did it work?

[patrick]

Just chiming in to say that I never did find a fix, but I have moved on to the wild world of F17 now (where wine seems to work fine, for what it is worth) so this problem no longer affects me.

[sandwormusmc]

Originally Posted by patrick

Just chiming in to say that I never did find a fix, but I have moved on to the wild world of F17 now (where wine seems to work fine, for what it is worth) so this problem no longer affects me.

A friend of a friend on Facebook was telling me they rewrote the wine alsa stuff for Windows 7 architectural changes, so it would make sense that a newer version of wine (probably included in F17) contains fixes for this.

Short of upgrading to F17 Alpha, I think I'll enable 'fedora-updates-testing' to see if a newer version of wine is available and try that out.

I'll post more info if I end up getting it to work.

---------- Post added at 10:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:05 PM ----------

A follow up to this: between the Facebook post and this thread (the clue that updating to F17 fixed the issue), I figured the new version of Wine would do it.

Here is the command I used to update wine in Fedora 16 (will probably work in other versions also. not necessary in F17):

[root@mysystemnotyours ~]# yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=updates-testing update 'wine*'

[patrick]

Oh no!

Now that I actually want to use wine in F17, I am being plagued by the farting sound again! Somewhere in the last month something went south, apparently.

patrick@crudora:~$ uname -a
Linux crudora.schiznet 3.3.4-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 27 18:39:03 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

patrick@crudora:~$ rpm -qa | grep wine
wine-pulseaudio-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
wine-core-1.5.3-1.fc17.i686
wine-core-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
wine-symbol-fonts-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-marlett-fonts-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
mingw32-wine-gecko-1.5-2.fc17.noarch
wine-capi-1.5.3-1.fc17.i686
wine-common-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-ldap-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
wine-system-fonts-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-ldap-1.5.3-1.fc17.i686
wine-cms-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
wine-ms-sans-serif-fonts-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-desktop-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-twain-1.5.3-1.fc17.i686
wine-twain-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
mingw64-wine-gecko-1.5-2.fc17.noarch
wine-small-fonts-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-pulseaudio-1.5.3-1.fc17.i686
wine-wow-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
wine-systemd-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-cms-1.5.3-1.fc17.i686
wine-tahoma-fonts-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-openal-1.5.3-1.fc17.i686
wine-openal-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
wine-alsa-1.5.3-1.fc17.i686
wine-capi-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
wine-fonts-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch
wine-alsa-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
wine-courier-fonts-1.5.3-1.fc17.noarch

patrick@crudora:~$ rpm -qa | grep pulse
wine-pulseaudio-1.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.25-3.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-1.1-9.fc17.i686
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
wine-pulseaudio-1.5.3-1.fc17.i686
pulseaudio-libs-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.25-3.fc17.i686

???

[sandwormusmc]

I'm actually getting it somewhat randomly at home ... when it happens, I change the output type in my sound settings and all works again. Try selecting the hardware tab in sound settings, then changing the profile for your headphones/speakers. When it happens again, switch it back to another profile. Not sure what you could do if you only have one profile, though.

Because of that, I keep the sound settings up pretty much continuously while I'm using anything with sound.

[digimars]

Got the same problem here. Just updated to wine 1.5.2, and no sound. Restarting the computer does not help.

---------- Post added at 03:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:53 PM ----------

Also, I should add that this is on F16, x86_64 with wine i686 installed.