I am having a strange sound issue that affects all apps on Wine. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and have a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit. Wine version 1.0rc3 is configured to use the ALSA driver. DirectSound hardware acceleration has been enabled a long time before using Hardy and has never caused any problems until now. Regularly the sound of a game/application completely drops until the application is restarted. Temporarily disabling PulseAudio does not solve the problem. To workaround this problem I have set sound hardware acceleration to "Emulation". Audio will then continue to play, however it occasionally runs faster than it should until it "catches up". Is this a known problem. Should this be reported as a bug? Many thanks for your responses.
powered_by_tux wrote:> I am having a strange sound issue that affects all apps on Wine. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and have a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit. Wine version 1.0rc3 is configured to use the ALSA driver. > > DirectSound hardware acceleration has been enabled a long time before using Hardy and has never caused any problems until now. Regularly the sound of a game/application completely drops until the application is restarted. Temporarily disabling PulseAudio does not solve the problem. > > To workaround this problem I have set sound hardware acceleration to "Emulation". Audio will then continue to play, however it occasionally runs faster than it should until it "catches up". > > Is this a known problem. Should this be reported as a bug? Many thanks for your responses.Because your distro using pulseaudio - which is not compatible with most OSS/ALSA programs. Kill/disable/remove it. Then Wine will work again.
Thanks for your reply. I tried to disable Pulseaudio (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio) in Gnome Settings as well as using pasuspender. I even temporarily removed pulseaudio but the sound still drops after a while.
How do your non-wine apps work? There are a lot of sound bugs in Hardy. Try recording a sound using gnome's Sound Recorder and playing it back to yourself. Do you have an hda-intel soundcard? -----Original Message----->From: vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> >Sent: Jun 6, 2008 3:23 PM >To: wine-users at winehq.org >Subject: [Wine] Re: Strange sound problems on Hardy > > >powered_by_tux wrote: >> Thanks for your reply. I tried to disable Pulseaudio (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio) in Gnome Settings as well as using pasuspender. I even temporarily removed pulseaudio but the sound still drops after a while. > > >The whole point in killing/disabling/removing pulseaudio is to stop it completely. Adding it's plugin to ALSA breaks ALSA so Wine can't use it. > > > > >