[Bug 39968] New: alsa sound problem recognizing Logitech USB wireless soundcard

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39968

Bug ID: 39968
           Summary: alsa sound problem recognizing Logitech USB wireless
                    soundcard
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.9.1
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: winealsa.drv
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Wine alsa does not recognize my wireless usb sound card. 
I have tested with Dragon Naturally Speaking 13 and Windows Audacity. 
I set up the wine prefix with sound=alsa before installing. 
Pulseaudio is disabled on my system.

Alsamixer info: 
Card 2 (set as default using asoundrc)
USB-Audio - Logitech Wireless Headset
Logitech Logitech Wireless Headset at usb-0000:00:14.0-1, full speed

In winecfg, the device seems to be recognized appropriately. It has e.g. Out:
Logitech Wireless Headset - USB 
And the Test Sound works.

But when running the program, the sound is very faint and is I believe coming
from my system's soundcard.

[Bug 39968] alsa sound problem recognizing Logitech USB wireless soundcard

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39968

--- Comment #1 from Susan Cragin  ---
A quick and dirty fix is to go into regedit.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Wine / Drivers / winealsa.drv

and delete all the drivers that don't start with the number "2"

This works for the current session, but it doesn't seem to stick very well.

[Bug 39968] alsa sound problem recognizing Logitech USB wireless soundcard

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39968

--- Comment #2 from Susan Cragin  ---
Their is a weird workaround for this. Pulseaudio must be running, even though
wine goes to alsa and all the drivers in regedit are set up to point to alsa.

[Bug 39968] alsa sound problem recognizing Logitech USB wireless soundcard

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39968

Andrew Eikum  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Andrew Eikum  ---
If you don't normally have PulseAudio enabled, then leave it disabled for
testing this bug. It should work without it.

(In reply to Susan Cragin from comment #0)
> Wine alsa does not recognize my wireless usb sound card. 
> I have tested with Dragon Naturally Speaking 13 and Windows Audacity. 
> I set up the wine prefix with sound=alsa before installing. 
> Pulseaudio is disabled on my system.
>
> Alsamixer info: 
> Card 2 (set as default using asoundrc)
> USB-Audio - Logitech Wireless Headset
> Logitech Logitech Wireless Headset at usb-0000:00:14.0-1, full speed
>
> In winecfg, the device seems to be recognized appropriately. It has e.g.
> Out: Logitech Wireless Headset - USB 
> And the Test Sound works.
>
> But when running the program, the sound is very faint and is I believe
> coming from my system's soundcard.

You've confused me a little bit here. Does the sound come through very faintly
from your wireless headset, or from some other speakers?

It sounds like Wine can see the device and reports it to the application, but
the application is using a different device by default. Does the application
have a way to select which audio device it outputs audio to? You could also try
selecting the USB device in winecfg as the default device and see if the
application respects that.