Hello, I have been trying to get audio working in sync with the game I am playing (Activision Call of Duty) I get this error: err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Could not map sound device for direct access (Input/output error) err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Use: "HardwareAcceleration" = "Emulation" in the [dsound] section of your config If I use the suggestion i get 1sec lag on in-game sounds. Someone #winehq gave me some tips. I added these extra lines to my ~/.wine/config file, pasted them to me on #winehq. I could not find these in the config documentation, could they be added somewhere please? [dsound] ;"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv" ; default for most common configurations ;"Drivers" = "winearts.drv" ; for KDE "Drivers" = "winealsa.drv" ; for ALSA users ;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to mix in new buffers. "HELmargin" = "5" ;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to queue to driver. ;"HELqueue" = "5" ;; Max number of fragments to prebuffer ;"SndQueueMax" = "28" ;; Min number of fragments to prebuffer ;"SndQueueMin" = "12" ;; Forces emulation mode (using wave api) "HardwareAcceleration" = "Emulation" ;; Sets default playback device (0 - number of devices - 1) ;"DefaultPlayback" = "0" ; use first device (/dev/dsp) ;"DefaultPlayback" = "1" ; use second device (/dev/dsp1) ;"DefaultPlayback" = "2" ; use third device (/dev/dsp2) ;; Sets default capture device (0 - number of devices - 1) ;"DefaultCapture" = "0" ; use first device (/dev/dsp) ;"DefaultCapture" = "1" ; use second device (/dev/dsp1) ;"DefaultCapture" = "2" ; use third device (/dev/dsp2) Unfortunately these did not really change anything. I uncomment them and changed them around to see if anything changed, but I had to go with eh "Emulation" bit uncommented as above to get the game to work at all. (Gave a sound error while loading otherwise) I wonder if this is a known problem (bug)? Is there a work around? Or a fix please? I am not on this list, so please include my email address in any replies. Kind regards JG -- Homepage: http://jguk.org/ Blog: http://jguk.org/blog.rss Radio: http://jguk.org/#radio