Hi Everyone,

Hopefully someone can help me. I can not run any games using CVSCedega. I have installed them using cedega and loki installers and both complete fine. The problem occurs when I try to run them. Like MaxPayne2 for example - it starts fine and I get the Video setting screen prompt I click play and imediately get this error:

Exception in engineInit:X_SharedDB: There was nothing inside "Sounds", database incomplete

So I thought maybe that game was just bad so I installed Call of Duty using loki installer and tried to run it, here is what I got:

err:module:BUILTIN_LoadModule loaded .so but dll winealsa.drv still not found

So I think it is safe to say that I have a sound issue. But I am not sure what to do to fix it. I am running ALSA and it starts at startup and I have Sound in X and in native games like Doom3. So I am not sure what is happening here - Here is my cvscedega config file as it refers to sound:

[Wineserver]
;; This option indicates if Cedega should accelerate
;; interprocess communication (AIC) between the client
;; and server.
"SHMWineserver" = "Y"

[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "winealsa.drv"
;"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"
"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"

[wineoss]
"UseMMap" = "N"
"FullDuplex" = "N"
;; Specify a mapping for what digital audio devices to use
;"dsp0" = "/dev/dsp0"
;"mixer0" = "/dev/mixer0"

[winealsa]
;; This option allows you to configure Cedega to write directly
;; to memory on the sound card rather than having to use the
;; slower route through the kernel.
"UseMMap" = "Y"
;; These options allow you to specify what ALSA sound devices
;; Cedega should use. Appropriate selection of these options
;; can allow you to select a secondary sound card or a plugin.
;"pcm0" = "hw"
;"ctl0" = "hw"

I also tried with old cedega version 4.2.1 and got the same error - so likely no a CVS build issue. Does anyone know where I should start? Running Mandrake 10.1 with 2.6 kernel and GF4 Ti4200 vid card.

Any help would be appreciated, as you can tell I am kinda new at gaming in linux, but really would like to get it going so I can finally kick the winxp habit for good.

Thanks in Advance,

TheSonic1

just some additional notes:

1) tried in icewm as root and got the same errors
2) did a search for winealsa.drv and did not find anything (not sure if that is normal or not.
3) ran both cod and maxpayne2 from a console - both error out referencing that winealsa.drv
4) disabled ARTS in KDE and still have same error.
5) does not look like a cvs issue as tried with old version of cedega rpm 4.2.1 and also get the exact same error.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

TheSonic1

I got the sound going by changing the config to run OSS instread of ALSA in the config file - maxpayne2 still will not run says the "Sounds" database is incomplete error but COD runs however, when you exit it locks up - need to reboot to free it up - does anyone use Mandrake 10.1 with the full version of Cedega - maybe it is worth the subscription to fix all these issues? Also, since disabling and re-enabling ARTS - my bootup and shutdown sounds are no longer present - anyone know how to fix this too?