Wine help please

[schnabea]

Last time I successfully ran winecfg I accidently clicked the ALSA option on the audio tab and now every time I run Wine or winecfg I get the following error message:

ALSA lib seq_hw.c:455: (snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow)
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 14

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Who]

Hi,
I don't know _exactly_ what to do but I can point you. the _much_ less sensible solutions are at the top :P

Depending on how precious your configuration is you could:
(most destructive:) obliterate ~/.wine using delete
delete just the system.reg (or simlar name, use the wine manuals to be sure - I'm not on Ubunut right now)
(least distructive) edit the system.reg with a registry editor. Unfortunately if you can't open any wine apps this is gonna be unlikely.

In windows the registry is binary, not text - but I seem to remember wine dies it differently. you could try opening the system.reg (same applies as above to the name, it is just in ~/.wine) in a text editor like gedit.

I can have a look when I get back to my Ubuntu box on Monday if you want (post again or private message if you do want)

Good Luck

Who

[schnabea]

I can edit the system.reg file with gedit, but I have no idea which key or whatever to change in there.

[Who]

Righty: here is my plan:

When I get back to my breezy PC I copy my system.reg, then change the alsa option and then run a diff on them both (diff compares two files and says where they have been changed) - I could then paste the differences here and you could try and fix it....ok?

I won't be able to do that 'till Monday or Tuesday night though - sorry

[schnabea]

sure that works. Thanks for the help :)

[pkroks]

I have a similar problem. Please post your system.reg file.