Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:43:30 +0200 From: "Christos Margiolis" <christos@freebsd.org> To: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble@gmail.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wine has no audio on FreeBSD-oh-so-almost-stable 15.0-ALPHA. Message-ID: <DDN5PQ7BW0EQ.1P7SWU8O0OFGA@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CACpH0Md4gHT5MSHRubV99EQzzKUJfu4OVjCVRv06_S0j5V5-Tw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACpH0Md4gHT5MSHRubV99EQzzKUJfu4OVjCVRv06_S0j5V5-Tw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun Oct 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM CEST, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > Whenever I say wine here, assume I have also said wine-proton. I have > tried wine a number of different ways. At one point, I also noticed my > linuxulator wasn't passing audio, but this was fixed with a few more > libraries installed on the linux side. So now factorio (linux) works. > > I also don't appear to have any problem with either linux or wine 3D. > Things that will run without audio run fine. > > On the FreeBSD side, I have little trouble. There are about a dozen audi= o > devices ... most of them for every possible HDMI and DisplayPort connecti= on > in the machine. The 2nd one, however (pcm1) is my preferred. Setting th= e > preferred with kde seems to make it happen for things that don't set thei= r > own audio. What do you mean? > On wine, however, no audio choices show up. Some games (Fallout 4 is one= ) > will not launch without audio --- and so they refuse. Other games launch > and run fine, but have no audio. > > I've messed with alsa, port audio, and oss. Heck ... even my non-standar= d > headset (uses 48k audio) is working fine on FreeBSD. No sound working on > wine. > > Can anyone give pointers to a working sound system? I'm very close to > having a working system to make some notes about both steam and non-steam > games on FreeBSD. Just the audio is broken. Can you please share the steps you are following to reproduce this from zero? I would like to give it a try. I would suggest you open a PR on Bugzilla [1], and put the information there, so that we can track the issue more easily. Also make sure to set me as either the assignee or at least CC me to it. Christos [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org
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