Messing With Wine Apps And Lost Bass Sound

O.K. I was messing around with installing some windows apps with wine (pmconverter, tunebite, etc...) and now when I play music or any sound it sounds like the bass is turned way down and kinda a hall effect? I have no clue where to start looking. I am running suse 10.3 with a creative soundblaster live! drive card.

a little new info. When I go into yast and mess with the settings for my card almost nothing has any effect, like bass, or treble. I can adjust them from one extreme to the next and it does nothing but either the master or PCM both can adjust the volume.

Hmm, maybe the wine stuff is still running in the background? Try"

wineboot

in a terminal.

Kmix or Gnome mixer not working like the YaST one isn't? Maybe try:

Close the KMix or Gnome mixer.

Run:

su -
(type in your root password)
alsaconf

See if your card can be configured and alsa setting its defaults for your mixer. It should then restart alsa for you and you can open kmix or gnome volume control and see if your settings work.

If not, go into YaST-Hardware- and click on the Soundcard link and delete the card. Restart the computer. Go back into YaST and if it's still there then click edit and try to get YaST to configure it. If it's not there click add and hopefully YaST will set it up correctly again.

Some combination of those things should get your default soundcard settings applied again.