Wine 1.4.1 and the Pursuit of Sound (Wheezy, Asus Xonar STX audio card)

bfoster · 01-02-2015, 06:54 PM

Hey there,

This is only my second post here. My first post is related since my issue with getting sound to work with Wine brought me to totally destroy my Debian system and have to reinstall.
This first post is here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi....php?p=5294415

My audio card is Asus AV200 Xonar STX.

Code:

$ lspci -nn | grep audio

returns

Code:

02:04.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] [13f6:8788]

I might need to install a driver.

Since I just reinstalled, I ran

Code:

# apt-get install wine

to get wine
When I run

Code:

wine

I get the message that the wine64-bin helper package (which is what I assume I ended up installing) doesn't provide wine itself and to run:

Code:

# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt-get update
# apt-get install wine-bin:i386

So far so good, so I run:

Code:

winecfg

and checkout the audio tab.
The selected driver is winealsa.drv
The defaults (output and input devices) are all set to (System default).
The Test Sound button makes no sound, but logs

Code:

err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded

I have read this is a red herring, but I am including it just in case someone disagrees.

When I run a Windows with wine, everything works just fine except the sound.

So I end up with a few questions:

Should I modify the default input/output devices (if so, to what?) I have tried this in the past, but couldn't get anything to work this way (so I doubt this will solve it alone).

How do I install the Asus Xonar STX driver, or should I stick with the default Oxygen HD audio driver?

And finally, in all my reading it seems Wine 1.4.1's sound is broken and later releases seem to work for people. Should I try to update to a later release, and if so, what is the best way to do this? (Attempting to install a later release led to installing libc6 from sid and destroyed my system last time, so I am rather weary of this at this point).

I'm open- flood this thread with suggestions and opinions.

And thanks for reading!

veerain · 01-03-2015, 01:48 AM

First check whether sound is working file in linux. Normally sound is muted for playback. Use alsamixer to unmute. Wine uses the host alsa driver for sound emulation.

bfoster · 01-04-2015, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veerain

First check whether sound is working file in linux. Normally sound is muted for playback. Use alsamixer to unmute. Wine uses the host alsa driver for sound emulation.

See attached screenshots: neither my pulseaudio nor my audio card directly are muted. Like I said above, sound works for everything - VLC plays fine, browser has sounds, other games that don't use Wine play just fine, sound and all.

What could the problem be?

From reading around, my impression is that ALSA doesn't do multiple applications at the same time. Well, directly at least. Pulseaudio seems to regulate all of that. What if Wine is competing with another app (not sure which, since I get this issue with just running terminal to start the game with wine)...

Anyway, thanks for your response but as far as I can tell, it isn't muted.

John VV · 01-04-2015, 01:44 PM

Why not install the current version of WINE
Wine 1.7.33
or the current stable
Wine 1.6.2

1.4 is OLD

Quote:

VLC plays fine,

????????????/

WHY are you running vlc in WINE!!!

it is a NATIVE LINUX PROGRAM !!
-- with a ms windows port

USE THE DEBIAN DEB package!!!!
and NOT the windows exe file

bfoster · 01-04-2015, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

Why not install the current version of WINE
Wine 1.7.33
or the current stable
Wine 1.6.2

1.4 is OLD

????????????/

WHY are you running vlc in WINE!!!

it is a NATIVE LINUX PROGRAM !!
-- with a ms windows port

USE THE DEBIAN DEB package!!!!
and NOT the windows exe file

I was trying to demonstrate non-wine programs sound fine. I of course would not run VLC through wine.

How do you suggest I install the latest wine?
I tried building from the latest release files, but that didn't work last time (unmet dependencies I couldn't resolve, which led to trying to fulfill the dependencies from sid branch, which led to totally destroying my machine and having to reinstall)...

Thanks for the reply- sorry to scare you. :-P

bfoster · 01-04-2015, 06:09 PM

I plan on following instructions from here: http://www.fandigital.com/2012/05/in...ian-linux.html

I will download
libwine-unstable_1.7.15-0.1_amd64.deb
wine64-unstable_1.7.15-0.1_amd64.deb
from http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/
and run

Code:

# dpkg -i

for each (lib first).

If I get the unmet dependencies message, I will run

Code:

# apt-get install -f

Do I need to uninstall Wine before doing this?

Any other suggestions?

Will post back with results.

bfoster · 01-04-2015, 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bfoster

I plan on following instructions from here: http://www.fandigital.com/2012/05/in...ian-linux.html

I will download
libwine-unstable_1.7.15-0.1_amd64.deb
wine64-unstable_1.7.15-0.1_amd64.deb
from http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/
and run

Code:

# dpkg -i

for each (lib first).

If I get the unmet dependencies message, I will run

Code:

# apt-get install -f

Do I need to uninstall Wine before doing this?

Any other suggestions?

Will post back with results.

Hm... this is what I get:

Code:

# dpkg -i libwine-unstable_1.7.15-0.1_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package libwine-unstable:amd64.
(Reading database ... 150898 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libwine-unstable:amd64 (from libwine-unstable_1.7.15-0.1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libwine-unstable:amd64:
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libc6 (>= 2.17); however:
  Version of libc6:amd64 on system is 2.13-38+deb7u6.
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libgphoto2-6 (>= 2.5.2); however:
  Package libgphoto2-6 is not installed.
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libgphoto2-port10 (>= 2.5.2); however:
  Package libgphoto2-port10 is not installed.
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libmpg123-0 (>= 1.6.2); however:
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libxml2 (>= 2.9.0); however:
  Version of libxml2:amd64 on system is 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy2.

dpkg: error processing libwine-unstable:amd64 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libwine-unstable:amd64

Going to try

Code:

apt-get install -f

bfoster · 01-04-2015, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bfoster

Hm... this is what I get:

Code:

# dpkg -i libwine-unstable_1.7.15-0.1_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package libwine-unstable:amd64.
(Reading database ... 150898 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libwine-unstable:amd64 (from libwine-unstable_1.7.15-0.1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libwine-unstable:amd64:
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libc6 (>= 2.17); however:
  Version of libc6:amd64 on system is 2.13-38+deb7u6.
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libgphoto2-6 (>= 2.5.2); however:
  Package libgphoto2-6 is not installed.
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libgphoto2-port10 (>= 2.5.2); however:
  Package libgphoto2-port10 is not installed.
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libmpg123-0 (>= 1.6.2); however:
 libwine-unstable:amd64 depends on libxml2 (>= 2.9.0); however:
  Version of libxml2:amd64 on system is 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy2.

dpkg: error processing libwine-unstable:amd64 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libwine-unstable:amd64

Going to try

Code:

apt-get install -f

Definitely not what I expected.

Code:

# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libwine-unstable
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 128 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 152018 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libwine-unstable:amd64 ...

What am I doing wrong here?