Wine has no audio on FreeBSD-oh-so-almost-stable 15.0-ALPHA.
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:18:43 UTC
Whenever I say wine here, assume I have also said wine-proton. I have tried wine a number of different ways. At one point, I also noticed my linuxulator wasn't passing audio, but this was fixed with a few more libraries installed on the linux side. So now factorio (linux) works. I also don't appear to have any problem with either linux or wine 3D. Things that will run without audio run fine. On the FreeBSD side, I have little trouble. There are about a dozen audio devices ... most of them for every possible HDMI and DisplayPort connection in the machine. The 2nd one, however (pcm1) is my preferred. Setting the preferred with kde seems to make it happen for things that don't set their own audio. On wine, however, no audio choices show up. Some games (Fallout 4 is one) will not launch without audio --- and so they refuse. Other games launch and run fine, but have no audio. I've messed with alsa, port audio, and oss. Heck ... even my non-standard headset (uses 48k audio) is working fine on FreeBSD. No sound working on wine. Can anyone give pointers to a working sound system? I'm very close to having a working system to make some notes about both steam and non-steam games on FreeBSD. Just the audio is broken.