Hi Everyone,

Hopefully someone can help me. I can not run any games using CVSCedega. I have installed them using cedega and loki installers and both complete fine. The problem occurs when I try to run them. Like MaxPayne2 for example - it starts fine and I get the Video setting screen prompt I click play and imediately get this error:

Exception in engineInit:X_SharedDB: There was nothing inside "Sounds", database incomplete

So I thought maybe that game was just bad so I installed Call of Duty using loki installer and tried to run it, here is what I got:

err:module:BUILTIN_LoadModule loaded .so but dll winealsa.drv still not found

So I think it is safe to say that I have a sound issue. But I am not sure what to do to fix it. I am running ALSA and it starts at startup and I have Sound in X and in native games like Doom3. So I am not sure what is happening here - Here is my cvscedega config file as it refers to sound:

[Wineserver]
;; This option indicates if Cedega should accelerate
;; interprocess communication (AIC) between the client
;; and server.
"SHMWineserver" = "Y"

[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "winealsa.drv"
;"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"
"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"

[wineoss]
"UseMMap" = "N"
"FullDuplex" = "N"
;; Specify a mapping for what digital audio devices to use
;"dsp0" = "/dev/dsp0"
;"mixer0" = "/dev/mixer0"

[winealsa]
;; This option allows you to configure Cedega to write directly
;; to memory on the sound card rather than having to use the
;; slower route through the kernel.
"UseMMap" = "Y"
;; These options allow you to specify what ALSA sound devices
;; Cedega should use. Appropriate selection of these options
;; can allow you to select a secondary sound card or a plugin.
;"pcm0" = "hw"
;"ctl0" = "hw"

Does anyone know where I should start? Running Mandrake 10.1 with 2.6 kernel and GF4 Ti4200 vid card.

Any help would be appreciated, as you can tell I am kinda new at gaming in linux, but really would like to get it going so I can finally kick the winxp habit for good.

Thanks in Advance,

TheSonic1

sounds like something is missing from the cvsCedega build..

I tried with old version 4.2.1 RPM and 1.3.2 point2play and got the exact same error messages. So I do not think it is CVS issue

i tend to agree..
try to disableing arts {sound server} in kde and try playing a game.. arts tend to conflict with some audio programs... all try playing a game from gnome to see if the issue is with KDE.. but i think the problem might be arts

Disabled the sound system option is the KDE Sound system config screen in 10.1 - same error - even restarted to see if the setting was still disabled and it was. Interestingly I did a search for winealsa.drv and I have no file by that name - do you know where it is supposed to be located?

also: Just logged int ICEWM and ran from console as root - same error - I am sure it has something to do with winealsa.drv - as I looked at the startup script after trying to run both maxpayne2 and cod from the console as root as both refference that file - and I can not seen to find where that is supposed to be located

I got the sound going by changing the config to run OSS instread of ALSA in the config file - maxpayne2 still will not run says the "Sounds" database is incomplete error but COD runs however, when you exit it locks up - need to reboot to free it up - any further ideas?

Also, does anyone use Mandrake 10.1 with the full version of Cedega (4.3)- maybe it is worth the subscription to fix all these issues? Also, since disabling and re-enabling ARTS - my bootup and shutdown sounds are no longer present - anyone know how to fix this too?