Sound in ALSA but not in WINE

Question

Hello,
I have some trouble activating sound in WINE and hope for your help
I run Arch on a PC with Asus P8H77-M mainboard with onboard sound. Here's some details on the sound device:
lspci -knn
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8H77-I Motherboard [1043:8415]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: VT1708S Alt Analog [VT1708S Alt Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, VT1708S Digital
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1
HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
I added the the HDMI output as standard output to /etc/asound.conf and also added HDMI_TV for testing purposes:
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 7
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 7
pcm.HDMI_TV {
type hw
card 0
device 7
ctl.HDMI_TV {
type hw
card 0
device 7
When it test the setup with speaker-test -c 2 or speaker-test -D HDMI_TV -c 2 I get some nice pink noise on my speakers
I have a number of Output devices to select from in winecfg, but with none of them I can get any sound out of my speakers:
(System standard)
Out: default
Out: HDA Intel PCH - VT1708S Analog
Out: HDA Intel PCH - VT1708S Digital
Out: HDA Intel PCH - HDMI 0
When I fist started winecfg and selected the Audio tab, I got some pulse related error message (something like "err:pulse:pulse_CallbackContext Connection refused", I don't remember exactly). I have pulseaudio installed (as a dependency of chromium) but it's not active, so I turned to ALSA with winetricks sound=alsa.
Now I don't get the pulse error message anymore, but there is still no sound and when I hit the Test Sound button the first time after starting winecfg, I get the error message "err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded". I have no idea whether this is directly related to my sound problem.
I tried adding HDMI_TV in the registry key ALSAOutputDevices. Now I have one more device to select from, but still no sound
I am running out of ideas what to try next, so if anybody has a hint, please tell me (y)
If you need more information on my hardware or software, please tell me!
As I am somewhat of a newbie with Arch and WINE, you might also have to tell me where to get that information
Thanks & best regards
Lasse
Btw: I installed XBMC and sound output via HDMI works perfectly

Answer 1

Hi, I'm one of Wine's main audio maintainers.
supermariolinux is right that you'll need the 32-bit audio packages. If you're not using PulseAudio, you should only need lib32-alsa-lib. If you are using Pulse, you will also need lib32-alsa-plugins and lib32-libpulse. You can do "pacman -Qi wine" to get a list of optional packages that you may be missing.
You said that you got an error saying, "err:pulse:pulse_CallbackContext Connection refused". This doesn't seem possible if you're using the official Arch Wine package, as Arch doesn't supply the unofficial Pulse audio backend. Are you building Wine yourself? Do you get an errors upon running configure?
The CoInitializeEx message is harmless.
Finally, you can get a debug log which may give you more information about what's happening. There are more instructions for that here: http://wiki.winehq.org/Sound under "What to include when filing a bug." You may find some useful information near lines containing "AudioClient_Initialize". If you upload a log someplace, I can take a look as well.