Step 5: Installing and Configuring Sound / Ventrilo

Download Ventrilo

Go ahead and download ventrilo to your desktop for now.

                Install Ventrilo normally following instructions

                Reconfigure Wine

                                Applications -> Wine -> winecfg

                                Select “Audio” tab.

                                Change “Audio” from OSS to ALSA (if it is not already.  This allows software mixing.)

                                Turn on Emulation (at the bottom).

                Configure Sound

                                Right-click on sound button at top right of screen and choose “Options”.

                                Select “More Options” and check them all.  This will enable “Capture” (or your microphone) and other random options you didn’t even know you needed.

                Open Ventrilo

                                Choose “Setup”.

                                Turn off any and all direct-sound options.  Let it choose the default.

                                Test your microphone.  If you have forgotten to enable Capture previously, this will not function.

GARRETH IS GONNA REWRITE THIS PAGE!!!!   (though he might not know it yet)

He ran me all over Ubuntu making changes and I couldn’t keep track of half of them.  Whatever they were, they worked though.

P.S.  The reason we didn't really 'configure' anything is because Linux generally tracks and installs all sound cards by default during the initial install.  if Linux did not track and install yours, might I recommend google.com?