No sound in Mint 6 after installing wine
 

Hey Guys,

I installed Mint 6 on my Dell XPS 1530 2 days ago. After install, sound seems to be working fine. Yesterday I installed wine and tried to check audio options using "winecfg". After that I lost my sound and can only here sound just like that of old car engine.

I tried to check other posts here and nothing seems a good solution.

Here is output for "lspci"

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
03:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)



I also found that all my sound modules are loaded. But still it's not working.

So guys please help.


Thanks,
Prasad

Best guess: Wine is configured to use OSS, not ALSA for your sound output. OSS is simpler than ALSA and puts a lower load on your system, mainly because it doesn't use a software mixer, meaning that only one program can output sound at a time.

A simple workaround is to install the alsa-oss package, which will re-route all OSS sounds through ALSA, allowing the software mixer to work.

If not, then wine's sound output is not configured properly.

[Solved] No sound in Mint 6 after installing wine
 

WOW!!! That worked perfectly fine....Thanks a lot. :)

But the sound seems to be low compared to Vista...any solution to increase it further?

Do you mean the sound's volume is low?

There are often several volume controls on the soundcard, and ALSA might provide software emulations. For example, old Sound Blaster 16 cards had both an attenuator and a pre-amp', which showed as separate volume controls.

Also, individual programs may occasionally have their own volume controls separate from ALSA. These effectively mute the sound before outputting it. Most programs just change the master volume level though.

I'm using Ubuntu rather than Mint, so the user interface may vary slightly.

There should be a volume applet on the panel somewhere (if not, you can right-click on an empty part of the panel to add one). If you right-click on the applet you should get an option like "open volume control". This will bring up a dialog with a drop-down for the various sound devices (physical and virtual) on the computer, and show you the various volume controls for each, in a tabbed pane. Some options may be hidden behind the Preferences button. Sometimes more than one volume control may have an effect.

Hope that helps,

—Robert J Lee