On Wednesday 03 January 2007 06:06, Clayton wrote:
Maybe someone here can point me in the right direction...
I'm running SUSE 10.2 and bumping into a problem with sound in a specific application... Cedega and World of Warcraft. Basically I have no sound at all in Cedega/WoW.
I've tinkered around a fair bit and searched... posted on the Cedega forums etc etc.. and no solutions yet.
As best as I can figure, the problem is with how ALSA and OSS are handled in SUSE. For whatever reason Cedega cannot see any OSS capabilities in SUSE. I've got the ALSA OSS emulation stuff installed... I've checked that.
If I run the Cedega tests it fails the OSS support test. If I force it to use OSS in the Cedega setup, I'm met with silence. (As an experiment, I've also tried telling KDE to use OSS instead of ALSA, and it does not work)
As a comparison, I've also got Kubuntu (6.10) installed, and under Kubuntu, and sound works perfectly... if I'm using the OSS option in the audio tab (in the setup in Cedega). Also, when I run the Cedega tests, it passes the OSS test.
So... the hardware supports whatever is needed, the application works... the game works... just not in SUSE.
Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on this... what can be done to convince Cedega (or anything else for that matter - eg KDE) to use OSS on SUSE?
C.
Run the program from the konsole/console and post the output it prints. Also check the premissions of the /dev/<oss specific> files and make sure they have read access for the users or approp group (e.g. audio, etc). Just for those not in the know to run your program for wine in the console: wine/Cedega <Point2play or whatever it is now><.wine>/c_drive<or whatever>/<you program dir>/<so forth and so on>/<program executable> Then back out/kill program and look at the console data it printed. It may be a config issue with wine/Cedega. Or it may be the permissions as well. Also If you're running AppArmor - Don't! It can interfer with apps and /dev access - it's designed for Enterprise/network servers with access to the outside world - generally overkill for home users and non-servers. I used WineX/Cedega for years and IMHO the state of the generic Wine program is much easier to use (and you don't have to fork out $5 every month). I tried to support the WineX/Cedega project for about 3 years and gave up because I had far better luck running the games I wanted in plain old Wine rather than Cedega - I just don't get what their trying to accomplish (other than making money). Game support is hit or miss and as I said - I can get the old fashioned Wine to do the same and more. HTH, Curtis. -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! I don't want a politician I can believe in. I simply want a politician I can believe!