wine users - Aug 2011 - wine monopolizes the sound

Hello,

I have a sound problem with wine: when it is running, the sound works fine, but
no other application can play any sound. If I have sound playing elsewhere and
then launch wine, then wine do not play any sound.

I am using pulseaudio, debian sid 64 bits and I can play several sounds at the
same time.
This problem happen even if pulseaudio is disabled, and with every wine version
I tried (1.0.1, 1.2.3, 1.3.24).

I've seen a lot of posts saying to run wine through padsp or aoss, but when
I do it, I get the following errors:

with aoss: ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD
cannot be preloaded: ignored.
with padsp: ERROR: ld.so: object 'libpulsedsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot
be preloaded: ignored.

The problem stays exactly the same (sound either in wine or the rest), it seems
to be because of the fact that I am on a 64 bits OS.

I tried to download 32bits libraries libpulseaudiodsp.so and libaoss.so, the
error messages change to those:
error while loading shared libraries: libalsatoss.so.0: wrong ELF class:
ELFCLASS64

It concerns other libraries called after the first, I changed them to 32 bits
versions (btw, it calls libraries from /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib32) but I
still get errors such as
error while loading shared libraries: libpulsecommon-0.9.23.so: wrong ELF class:
ELFCLASS32

Any help would be welcomed.

Thanks.

cyphaw I can bet what this problem is.

Number basically forget aoss and padsp instructions in most cases.

First stop winecfg tab audio  set "Hardware acceleration" to
emulation.

Number two pasuspender don't work on lots of sound cards and cause issue of
exclusive access.   Developer of pulseaudio will not listern to me and enable
dmix when it disables pulseaudio or even just provide option to enable dmix when
disabling pulseaudio.

Sound card without mixer giving direct access without dmix or pulseaudio results
in exclusive access issue.   cyphaw.

Also you need to fix some things never get the idea of copying 32 bit libraries
into 64 bit library directory in an attempt to fix things you only make stuff
worse.

On a 64 bit system /usr/lib should contain 64 bit versions. /lib/lib32 contains
32 bit versions.

Now if its loading the wrong ones after that is the preload script that needs
altering.   Please reverse the damage you have done before doing anything else.