Steam (WINE) kills all sound

Pope Unleashed · 2015-07-20 18:30:07

Hey,

I just installed Steam with Wine and I'm experiencing a really strange problem. When Steam is running, I can't hear any sounds in my system, no matter if they are from a steam game or a random audio file on the system. As soon as I kill the steam process, all sound immidiately goes back on.

Any ideas? Thanks.

jasonwryan · 2015-07-20 18:34:59

Logs? Journal? Details of your sound setup? Any attempt at debugging yourself?

Don't be a help vampire.

Moving to NC...

Durden · 2015-07-21 01:24:01

How did you install steam? PlayOnLinux? What version of wine? Need a lot more info as Jason pointed out.

Mangix · 2015-07-21 01:30:42

I suspect pulseaudio.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sk … nd_sources

Pope Unleashed · 2015-07-21 12:31:39

jasonwryan wrote:

Logs? Journal? Details of your sound setup? Any attempt at debugging yourself?
Don't be a help vampire.

Moving to NC...

Durden wrote:

How did you install steam? PlayOnLinux? What version of wine? Need a lot more info as Jason pointed out.

Mangix wrote:

I suspect pulseaudio.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sk … nd_sources

Sorry, I'm trying here, it's just really hard to know what to do. I wanna make everything work but I feel lost and frustrated.

The problem has now reached a point where the sound doesn't go back on after terminating steam. I rebooted and still have no sound. I tried changing the default sound card in /etc/asound.conf but it didn't help, so I changed it back to:

GNU nano 2.4.2            File: /etc/asound.conf                              

pcm.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
  hint {
    show on
    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}

ctl.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
}

My output of aplay -l:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

The only sound audible is the sound test in winecfg. Everything else is dead silent. I made sure no channels in alsamixer are muted. When I launch alsamixer, by default it chooses Pulseaudio, with only one master channel and nothing else.

V1del · 2015-07-21 15:48:00

Set your winecfg to use the system default for all cards/soundsources (the option literally says systemdefault, not a specific card) is all I can say with as little info as you provided, we can't read your computer's setup you have to help us out here. What you provided here is a start, but not enough, please provide everything that has been asked so far

Last edited by V1del (2015-07-21 15:48:36)

Pope Unleashed · 2015-07-22 17:39:42

V1del wrote:

Set your winecfg to use the system default for all cards/soundsources (the option literally says systemdefault, not a specific card) is all I can say with as little info as you provided, we can't read your computer's setup you have to help us out here. What you provided here is a start, but not enough, please provide everything that has been asked so far

Ok so my winecfg has all paremeters under the audio tab set to (System Default). Yesterday I got sound through other applications while steam was running by changing the port in pavucontrol. The problem is now I can't even get steam launched, for which I have another thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1546923. Pardon the confusion, but these two problems are intervening with each other.

poulpe · 2017-01-14 08:39:48

Without any special configuration (pulseaudio + alsa) you can just install pavucontrol and use the GUI to mute (with the mute buttons) steam in 'playback' AND 'recording' tabs. It frees the device for other applications.
Launch Steam -> Launch pavucontrol -> Mute all the Steam things -> You can even close pavucontrol after that.
Obviously, you need to do it every time you launch steam
This is the only way for me to play any wine+steam games.

WorMzy · 2017-01-14 11:16:53

Thanks for sharing, poulpe. I'm going to take this opportunity to close this old thread.

Closing.

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