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Hi POL community,

System: Linux Mint 19

POL Version: 4.2.12

Across various downloaded Wine versions I tried (3.0 staging - 3.12), winecfg would show no sound drivers selected in the audio tab. I took a screenshot here : https://imgur.com/a/KIl5ukd (includes system info)

I tried to access the driver location with registry editor in 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Drivers] 

yet, the "Drivers" directory didn't exist

Im at a loss here. There are similar situations involving the system installed Wine, but none of the solutions would work with PlayOnLinux. I tried to install dsound and xaudio on the Windows XP software version to no effect. 

Is there a way to restore these drivers? Or is there a possibility this is a bug?

Edited by IonParticles

Wow, I've never sen this problem in Mint 18.3 and the same versions of PlayOnLinux and Wine.

Do you know if Mint 19 still uses Pulseaudio?

I guess this is from corrupted PlayOnLinux Files or one of its dependencies, so what I did is completely uninstall them. This removes the POL contained Wine to reinstall again. I will attempt to reinstall in a few moments and report back. I did find a bug on the way though: an MD5 file mismatch, which I filed here.

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/issue-5710.html

and yes, LM 19 uses Pulseaudio

Edited by IonParticles

Yes, there are a few packages that are erroring "File Mismatch"

The only way to fix it is a work-around using Winetricks.

I didn't realize Mono has this problem as well. Geesh

I see,

So I guess I need to set the Winetricks Wine Prefix to that of POL? Then fill in with wine gecko and the like?

Edited by IonParticles

Yes, you can do that.

Here is the template I use for installing Winetricks and packages in my PlayOnLinux virtual drive:

wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks

chmod +x winetricks

WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/gamename ./winetricks -q vcrun2015

Just replace "username" with your home name and "gamename" with the Virtual Drive name.
This one is for vcrun2015

Alrighty,

I found out the simple solution for this issue after browsing other forum entries. All I needed to do was install additional audio packages into the Linux Mint 19 system. (Synaptic Package Manager)

The packages were:

• libasound2:i386
• libasound2-plugins:i386
• libaudio2:i386

Wine selected the correct driver backend once these packages are installed: winealsa.drv

Sound works properly now

Thanks for the suggestions as I will apply them in future cases or in the case I need them, the Winetricks method worked great!

Edited by IonParticles

Oooo, that is strange.  I've never installed the packages myself in Mint 17 or 18.  Strange, I hope they add them to the Mint updater

Enjoy!

@IronParticles,
Thank you. Your solution worked for me. Additionaly I have to install libpulse0:i386.

My environment: Playonlinux 4.3.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 with Wine 5.0

Edited by virajperera