Ventrilo on WINE differs depending on if I'm root or not - need help
 

When running as root it:

1) Connects to servers fine
2) Can hear people talk
3) My microphone transmits only static
4) My sound devices are reported incorrectly

When not running as root:

1) My sound devices are reported correctly
2) I can not join servers
2a) Server has no channels/users shown (they are in it)
2b) "Can not resolve host name" when it should be able to

Help? :( There's nothing about this on the internet and my files are chmod'd just fine.

Hey,

Here is a really good walk through from the Gentoo fourms. Most of the information can be translated into other distro's just ignore the flag settings for the gentoo stuff.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Ventrilo_Via_Wine

If you have any questions let me know and i'll see what I can do.

My guess is your mic is not setup properly in the Winecfg or Vent for it to work on Wine. Also you have to use a little hack program to use push to talk capabilities outside of the wine window.

I've read all that, my mic is setup properly and i use it regularly on skype/ts, and i use that program already.

What I want to know is why it has connection issues when NOT run as root. I assume a network setting somewhere possibly.

Also, Alsa incorrectly displays my audio devices meanwhile ogg is fine.

winecfg screenshot:

http://i17.tinypic.com/8fx4psj.jpg

Any help is much appreciated.

P.S. I have two sound cards.

I can't solve this on my own : /

Is it lack of non-root network permissions?