I'm having issues with Wine 1.4 in Ubuntu 11.10. To be honest, I don't know if it ever worked on this hardware (relatively new computer, had it for a few months), seeing as the Wine app I use the most hardly uses sound, but now that I tried another app, it's giving me problems. When I do an audio test in Wine Config, I get a short static sound. The selected driver appears to be winealsa.drv, do I need to change that and if so, how would I do that? I have all the input and output devices set to default, I don't think I have to change that. I also shouldn't have to restart ALSA with sudo /sbin/alsa force-reload because it seems to work fine with my other applications (unless that's all on PulseAudio?), but even when I do run that command to restart ALSA, the test sound in Wine Config is still the same short static. I thought In the one application I just tried that uses sound a lot, sound plays but insanely fast, making it practically as useless as if sound didn't work at all. Sound works perfectly from anything outside of Wine.
I think I've found the problem, though. When I go in Regedit to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/, there's no Drivers key, nor Audio key. I created a Drivers key and added an Audio string with alsa as a value, didn't change anything. Edit: if I set the value to anything else, Wine Config tells me the audio driver is unavailable.
I've tried searching for a solution, went through forums (and I'll keep searching), I briefly looked at the Wine AppsDB but I don't think the problem is application-specific
Please help!
Edit: getting the debs from this place (from the Launchpad bug) tells me it has unmet dependencies, and if I try to install that dependency, Synaptic tells me it has to remove a whole lot of packages! Not willing to do that.
Ok I believe to have found the solution. I did delete my .wine folder and regenerated it by launching wine config but I think what solved it was rebooting my computer. I tried running the command wineboot but that didn't suffice for some reason, maybe that command would require a parameter to work.
What I know won't work is trying to install OSS from Synaptic. Having OSS packages installed will disable sound in Ubuntu.
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