[SOLVED] Powerpoint Sound in WINE; Has Anyone Ever Been Able to Make it Work?

cwizardone · 10-12-2009, 09:13 PM

Edit in: 27 February 2010. Finally, the problem has been solved! Please see post number 26 in this thread.
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I've never, ever, been able to get sound to work in WINE. I've tried it with various versions of Slackware and Kubuntu and the results have always been negative.
When tested in the wine configuration panel it works, but it has never worked in a running windows application.
Anyone know he magic formula?
Thanks.

Edit in, 15 October: As noted in post #17 in this thread I've installed WinAmp with WINE and it working well, playing an album in the background as I type this, so the problem is not with WINE, but must be with Powerpoint?

jedi_sith_fears · 10-12-2009, 09:15 PM

I installed counter-strike 1.6, and sound worked perfectly fine for me. Though I have to turn on OSS emulation there.

windtalker10 · 10-12-2009, 10:16 PM

I use wine mainly to run MSReader for ebooks but the few games I play now and then have sound and it works fine for me with doing nothing more than installing.

cwizardone · 10-13-2009, 12:21 AM

Sound in Powerpoint is the goal, but I've not met anyone who knows how to get it to work or found anything on the 'Net about how to get it to work.

foodown · 10-13-2009, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Sound in Powerpoint is the goal, but I've not met anyone who knows how to get it to work or found anything on the 'Net about how to get it to work.

I'm running Power Point from MS Office 2007 under WINE 1.1.23 . . . used WINE 1.1.0 to run the office installer. Sound works well.

I did install DirectX into the drive_c where Office lives . . . don't know if that was important . . . Office and a few other "vanilla" apps live in the same directory tree which I was using exclusively back before I started using a separate WINE_PREFIX for each app, which I do now.

Here are my overrides from user.reg:

Code:

[Software\\Wine\\DllOverrides] 1244522165
"d3d8"="builtin"
"d3d9"="builtin"
"d3dim"="native"
"d3drm"="native"
"d3dx8"="native"
"d3dx9_24"="native"
"d3dx9_25"="native"
"d3dx9_26"="native"
"d3dx9_27"="native"
"d3dx9_28"="native"
"d3dx9_29"="native"
"d3dx9_30"="native"
"d3dx9_31"="native"
"d3dx9_32"="native"
"d3dx9_33"="native"
"d3dx9_34"="native"
"d3dx9_35"="native"
"d3dx9_36"="native"
"d3dxof"="native"
"dciman32"="native"
"ddrawex"="native"
"devenum"="native"
"dinput"="builtin"
"dinput8"="builtin"
"dmband"="native"
"dmcompos"="native"
"dmime"="native"
"dmloader"="native"
"dmscript"="native"
"dmstyle"="native"
"dmsynth"="native"
"dmusic"="native"
"dmusic32"="native"
"dnsapi"="native"
"dplay"="native"
"dplayx"="native"
"dpnaddr"="native"
"dpnet"="native"
"dpnhpast"="native"
"dpnlobby"="native"
"dsound"="builtin"
"dswave"="native"
"dxdiagn"="native"
"mscoree"="native"
"msdmo"="native"
"qcap"="native"
"quartz"="native"
"riched20"="native"
"streamci"="native"
"usp10"="native"

THCsphere · 10-13-2009, 05:21 AM

Suprisingly, I haven't had an issue with sound in Wine. Counter-strike 1.6, counter-strike Source, and World of warcraft, No issues.

cwizardone · 10-13-2009, 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by foodown

I'm running Power Point from MS Office 2007 under WINE 1.1.23 . . . used WINE 1.1.0 to run the office installer. Sound works well.

I did install DirectX into the drive_c where Office lives . . . don't know if that was important . . . Office and a few other "vanilla" apps live in the same directory tree which I was using exclusively back before I started using a separate WINE_PREFIX for each app, which I do now....

Thanks. I added your overrides, but it didn't make a difference.

You were able to get ms-office to run with a standard installation of WINE, without having to add riched20, riched32, and msxml3 ?

Thanks,again.

adamk75 · 10-13-2009, 09:35 AM

Sound in MS PowerPoint 2003 via wine works fine here without any extra setup or configuration, using both the OSS and alsa sound drivers in wine (and the alsa and OSS kernel drivers). This is with an intel ac'97 chip. I don't have a newer version of Office to test with.

cwizardone · 10-13-2009, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adamk75

Sound in MS PowerPoint 2003 via wine works fine here without any extra setup or configuration, using both the OSS and alsa sound drivers in wine (and the alsa and OSS kernel drivers). This is with an intel ac'97 chip. I don't have a newer version of Office to test with.

Interesting. That is the exact same setup I have, i.e., office 2003 and chip set.
I wonder what "switch" I forgot to throw.....

foodown · 10-13-2009, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Thanks. I added your overrides, but it didn't make a difference.

You were able to get ms-office to run with a standard installation of WINE, without having to add riched20, riched32, and msxml3 ?

Thanks,again.

Yes . . . I built WINE from source, both the version I installed with and the one I run it under now.

Slackware64-current
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! (emu10k1)

cwizardone · 10-14-2009, 12:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by foodown

Yes . . . I built WINE from source, both the version I installed with and the one I run it under now.

Slackware64-current
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! (emu10k1)

What command or commands do you use to fire it up?
That is, what is on the command line in the menu setup?
Thankx.

foodown · 10-14-2009, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

What command or commands do you use to fire it up?
That is, what is on the command line in the menu setup?
Thankx.

env WINEPREFIX="/home/adam/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\POWERPNT.EXE"

Pretty vanil . . . probably no help for you there, I fear.

cwizardone · 10-14-2009, 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by foodown

env WINEPREFIX="/home/adam/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\POWERPNT.EXE"

Pretty vanil . . . probably no help for you there, I fear.

Yes, you are corect, the same command line is used on my setup, but thanks for taking the time to reply.

cwizardone · 10-14-2009, 09:55 PM

For other reasons I re-formatted the /root partition and did a fresh install of Slackware64, the "True Multilib" files, and WINE.
Before doing so I deleted the /home/username/.wine directory so I could start fresh. I put the ms-office CD in the drive and when "device notifier" popped up I told it to open the disk with the file manager, browsed to the setup file on the CD and told the file manager to open it with the WINE installer. The installation went smoothly, and it runs, but still No Sound.
There must be some simple "switch" that needs to be thrown that I'm not aware of.....

vik · 10-15-2009, 11:53 AM

What do you mean by "True Multilib"? Are you using Alien Bob's packages or some other solution?

Are you using wine 32-bit or Alien Bob's wine 64-bit package?