WoW - One day sound, next day, no sound.

[daemonfly]

Having a problem lately with absolutely no sound in WoW here & there. One day, it will work fine, next day (after a reboot, or cold boot) sound no longer works.

I screw around with tons of audio settings and eventually get it to work, sometimes, but never knowing what I really did.

winecfg is properly set to have only the OSS driver checked, per the install guide.

Proper entries are also in the WoW config file.
config.wtf
SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "150"
SET gxApi "OpenGL"

Sound for everything else works fine.

[dtruesdale]

try aplay -l and see if it throws an error up on the console?

[daemonfly]

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
Subdevices: 3/4
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Live [SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
Subdevices: 32/32
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
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card 1: Live [SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]], device 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
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Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: Live [SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[dtruesdale]

You have another app running hogging OSS. OSS doesn't like to share, I run wow in Cedega using Alsa. Tried the OSS and it says it's working but no sound comes out.

[daemonfly]

hrm, nothing else should be using OSS. I'll have to take a look.

[Sammi]

run this command:
sudo apt-get install alsa-ossto install alsa-oss, which is a little app that tunnels oss programs through alsa, making them work more or less like regular alsa apps.

To use it you just run wow.exe with the "aoss" command in front, something like this
aoss wine wow.exeIf you've made an icon launcher for WoW, then you just need to edit the launcher in the same way(add aoss in front).

[pwolfe]

I frequently have to kill the artsd process to be able to get sound going in WoW.

[daemonfly]

No artsd running.


Alsa-oss worked, which I thought it might, but I read that it was a performance hit and wanted to try to get OSS working by itself "perfectly" like it did for months now, until just recently.

[Sammi]

I like to have music playing in Amarok, while palying WoW. That's why I use alsa-oss, otherwise Amarok would be choked from using sound by OSS(WoW).