Wine on OpenSUSE Without Sound

Yesterday, I tried to install the Windows game Homeworld on my openSUSE 12.3. After a couple of problems, the no-cd patch, I could start the game with:

/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxrun --bottle Homeworld homeworld.exe /1600 /enable3DNow /enableSSE /device gl /heap 1073741824

Note: For /device gl, you must install DirectX 9.

The main problem: No sound. Starting the Wine Configuration, I saw that it was using winealsa.drv in the Audio tab.

Looking into the terminal finally solved the mystery:

ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:236:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

My system is 64bit but Crossover is probably a 32bit application.

Installing alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit finally solved the problem.

Also make sure you have this in your ~/.asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

Related:

• Homeworld 1.05 entry in the WineHQ App Database
• Bug 23714 - Homeworld : Can’t change resolution