i've upgraded ubuntu from 7.10 to 8.04 and now the pulseaudio doesnt get along with wine. from my limited knowledge wine doesnt sent the sound correctly at pulseaudio(?) i've found out this link (http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/05/27/make-wine-and-pulseaudio-get-along/) which explains a work around. But unfortunately i dont know if it actually stands. opinions?
stimpak wrote:> i've upgraded ubuntu from 7.10 to 8.04 and now the pulseaudio doesnt get along with wine. > > from my limited knowledge wine doesnt sent the sound correctly at pulseaudio(?) > > i've found out this link (http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/05/27/make-wine-and-pulseaudio-get-along/) which explains a work around. But unfortunately i dont know if it actually stands. > > opinions?Remove/disable pulseaudio. Wine will not work with it, unless you talking about making some noise not sound. It's just another sound server that people keep migrating all their junk from previous to the next one.
i know that i might start a flame war but, since pulseaudio comes bundled and as default for Hardy (ubuntu 8.04) there isnt at least a consideration for making a wine driver for it?
stimpak wrote:> i know that i might start a flame war but, since pulseaudio comes bundled and as default for Hardy (ubuntu 8.04) there isnt at least a consideration for making a wine driver for it?Nope. Wine already has lots of drivers. You can choose which one you want. But pulseaudio is not one of them. You can file bug with ubuntu to un-bundle pusleaudio from it.
Pulse took a short cut. They don't provide a pcm interface. Wine was designed that pcm would always be there either threw dmix or threw the cards hardware mixer. Now it is possible to get Pulse to work with wine by virtualising pcm but its laggy massively so. Get onto Pulse to provide a working pcm layour thinking alsa design said we could always have it. Problem if we cannot have it we will need to put something like dmix inside wine that will still have lag to hell problems. We need far more volume controls that the default mixer ctl mixer can provide. Same lack of hardware mixing emulation causes wine trouble when using oss threw pulse. One defect is causing us major problems. Because they read pcm as optional. Sorry its option for a sound card to provide it. But its not optional for all applications.