"Limbo" game has no sound

I just bought a game called Limbo in Humble Bundle V. The site says that all games are cross-platform but in my computer the game has no sound. I've searched in google and looked in the official FAQ, but none of them helped me.

How can I fix this?

Solution 1:

I got sound working after killing pulse audio. You'll have to get rid of the autospawn feature though.

See : http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=1457&sid=b61a832efcbda1807f7d3791e7a46a67

Summary:

sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf

(Or use editor of choice instead of nano.)

Uncomment and change the autospawn line as follows:

; autospawn = yes
autospawn = no

Otherwise pulseaudio will always restart.

In a terminal, killall pulseaudio . This kills pulseaudio for your current session.

Solution 2:

I've managed to get it working with sound on 12.04 in following way:

1. Add the Wine PPA:

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get upgrade
   winetricks directx9
   winecfg 
   

2. Change d3dx9_43 to "(native,builtin)" in Libraries tab

3. Download windows package and install it with wine.

4. Launch windows LIMBO!

Solution 3:

According to an email I got from the Humble Bundle support:

A new version of Limbo is being uploaded to the download pages today that should fix the Linux sound issue. Please check back on your download page for the updated timestamp below the download buttons on that page and try out the new version.

The update from the Ubuntu Software Center will probably appear soon too, as they confirmed in a second email:

Codeweavers is still finishing up the update, but we will have that posted to the download pages and the Ubuntu Center as soon as possible.

And indeed, I checked the last version that was updated: sound works fine now.