WineX error, SoF2MP and no sound :(

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Drk korrupted · Post by **Drk korrupted** » Mon May 05, 2003 6:50 am

I've unemerged and emerged winex plenty of times, but it still gives me the same error:

"wine: lstat /root/.winex/wineserver-Drk/socket : No such file or directory"

wtf is this? Drk is my hostname, as set in /etc/hostname
the directory exists, but the socket file does not.

Ive been using Gentoo for awhile but this wine business is new to me. All I want to do is play Soldier of Fortune 2.

I've read the forums and tried everything I can think of, but I never get sound, even from switiching from ALSA to OSS, so I figured winex might install it and it would work. So, I guess I'd be happy if someone could help me get SoF2 up with sound, whether by explaining this error or telling me where to look or giving me more advice on getting sound in SoF2. I use onboard RealTek sound.

MadEgg · Post by **MadEgg** » Mon May 05, 2003 9:46 am

I'm using Wine to play the game. I've had some problems like yours in the past, but the thing that solved it for me, which apparently did not help you, was changing back from ALSA to OSS.

With ALSA I couldn't get Wine to produce any sound at all, not even when using the alsa driver, and not using the OSS emulation.

But your problem seems to be different than mine was.
Would't have a clue

Drk korrupted · Post by **Drk korrupted** » Tue May 06, 2003 12:07 am

Im pretty sure I have OSS enabled, but I want to make sure I did this correctly, because I have sound w/ xmms and if i wine RTCWMP.exe on my windows install the game comes up and i have sound. In the kernel I built in support for my Ensoniq onboard sound, and also built in OSS support. Is this the correct way to go about it? I can't stand that it runs sooooooooooooo smooth in gentoo but I can' hear anything! Damn you windows....damn you....

p.s. It's odd that, if I install it from the CD, I somehow get sound from the install....but not in the game....weak

neuron · Post by **neuron** » Tue May 06, 2003 12:22 am

one quick thing, it's prefered not to run anything as root except from when you need to. Wine/Desktop stuff doesen't need to

Drk korrupted · Post by **Drk korrupted** » Tue May 06, 2003 2:09 am

why is that? my friends have been telling me that for awhile but i didnt worry about it since i am behind a campus firewall. I've been using my system for awhile as root and while I want to switch to just being a reg user, will I have problems since I have been using my system as root for awhile, i.e. file permissions not set correctly? I have noticed the root directory is full of one too many configs....
Anyways, off topic I know but learning new things is always a priority.

MadEgg · Post by **MadEgg** » Tue May 06, 2003 7:59 am

It's more for self-protection than hacker-protection :p

As a regular user you can't do:

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rm -rv /

for example. Ok, bit over the top but you get the picture. It's just much less likely to screw something up when you're not root.

And, having to switch to root to do something also gives you some more time to rethink what you're doing and if you're doing it correct.

As for the configs, if you got a lot of progs configured and stuff, just switching to another user would make you start all over again.
The simpler thing to do was copy those configuration directories over to the new users, and don't forget to give appropriate rights and ownership to them.
Some things can give problems tho when just copying it all over.

I had, for example, a lot of problems when copying .kde3.1 to another user's directory because of sockets and the like. Anyway, you just gotta try something

Still, 'this was all off-topic. IT does seem like oss has been set up properly, and if you get sound in those other apps and games, it's much more likely that you got a screwed version of wine somehow. Have you tried re-emerging wine yet?