Wine requires direct access to sound device(s) to make sound. This is true for both ALSA and OSS driver back-ends. However most sound servers are not compatible with neither of these back-ends. This also true about pulse-audio - it is not fully compatible with Wine. If you using new distro (Fedora 8, Ubuntu 8.04, SuSE 11) and do not have sound you should: 1. Report problem to your distro support 2. Disable or even remove pulse-audio
vitamin wrote:> Wine requires direct access to sound device(s) to make sound. This is true for both ALSA and OSS driver back-ends. However most sound servers are not compatible with neither of these back-ends. This also true about pulse-audio - it is not fully compatible with Wine. > > If you using new distro (Fedora 8, Ubuntu 8.04, SuSE 11) and do not have sound you should: > 1. Report problem to your distro support > 2. Disable or even remove pulse-audio >Will pasuspender work in these circumstances? Thanks, Scott Ritchie
Scott Ritchie wrote:> vitamin wrote: > > > Wine requires direct access to sound device(s) to make sound. This is true for both ALSA and OSS driver back-ends. However most sound servers are not compatible with neither of these back-ends. This also true about pulse-audio - it is not fully compatible with Wine. > > > > If you using new distro (Fedora 8, Ubuntu 8.04, SuSE 11) and do not have sound you should: > > 1. Report problem to your distro support > > 2. Disable or even remove pulse-audio > > > > > > Will pasuspender work in these circumstances?I'm guessing not always: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=8505#8505
vitamin wrote:> Wine requires direct access to sound device(s) to make sound. This is true for both ALSA and OSS driver back-ends. However most sound servers are not compatible with neither of these back-ends. This also true about pulse-audio - it is not fully compatible with Wine. > > If you using new distro (Fedora 8, Ubuntu 8.04, SuSE 11) and do not have sound you should: > 1. Report problem to your distro support > 2. Disable or even remove pulse-audioIm using Fedora 9 with a few apps that need sound, and got no problems with PA running so far. By the way, you maybe mention Fedora 9.
Das Letzte Einhorn
2008-Jun-25 15:28 UTC
[Wine] Re: No Sound in Wine - disable / remove pulseaudio
There is apparently a way to tweak pulseaudio so that Wine works with it. I do not know what I did to make it work, but here it does work!
pasuspender is card dependant and the author of pulse will not change it. Reason if card does not have a onboard mixer pasuspender will not start dmix to replace the mixer part when pulse audio is disabled. Please complain to pulseaudio about this. pasuspender really should warn users they are walking into limited function.
kleinlohmi
2008-Jul-13 10:32 UTC
[Wine] Re: No Sound in Wine - disable / remove pulseaudio
Hi, i am using Wine successfully with Pulseaudio via padsp!! First you have to run Code: padsp winecfg and select the OSS output under Audio. The other outputs should be toggled off. Then you can use any program via Code: padsp wine myprogram.exe It works fine for me. I am using Teamspeak 2 and Steam/CS 1.6 with it.
-----Original Message----->From: kleinlohmi <wineforum-user at winehq.org> >Sent: Jul 13, 2008 6:32 AM >To: wine-users at winehq.org >Subject: [Wine] Re: No Sound in Wine - disable / remove pulseaudio > >Hi, >i am using Wine successfully with Pulseaudio via padsp!! > >First you have to run > > >Code: >padsp winecfg > > and select the OSS output under Audio. The other outputs should be toggled off. > >Then you can use any program via > >Code: >padsp wine myprogram.exe > > > >It works fine for me. I am using Teamspeak 2 and Steam/CS 1.6 with it.I have gotten it to run with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Right now I am dictating into Notepad using it. Preliminary results show that the accuracy score yielded me a 28 or 29, versus 26 for alsa. The improvement in sound quality is probably statistically insignificant, but it is definitely not worse. I can't tell yet if it's any slower at running the speech recognition engine.
-----Original Message----->From: Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net> >Sent: Jul 15, 2008 10:15 AM >To: wine users <wine-users at winehq.org> >Subject: Re: [Wine] Re: No Sound in Wine - disable / remove pulseaudio > > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: kleinlohmi <wineforum-user at winehq.org> >>Sent: Jul 13, 2008 6:32 AM >>To: wine-users at winehq.org >>Subject: [Wine] Re: No Sound in Wine - disable / remove pulseaudio >> >>Hi, >>i am using Wine successfully with Pulseaudio via padsp!! >> >>First you have to run >> >> >>Code: >>padsp winecfg >> >> and select the OSS output under Audio. The other outputs should be toggled off. >> >>Then you can use any program via >> >>Code: >>padsp wine myprogram.exe >> >> >> >>It works fine for me. I am using Teamspeak 2 and Steam/CS 1.6 with it. > >I have gotten it to run with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Right now I am dictating into Notepad using it. Preliminary results show that the accuracy score yielded me a 28 or 29, versus 26 for alsa. The improvement in sound quality is probably statistically insignificant, but it is definitely not worse. >I can't tell yet if it's any slower at running the speech recognition engine. >Perhaps I am premature. The program runs but crashes every once in a while.
kleinlohmi wrote:> Hi, > i am using Wine successfully with Pulseaudio via padsp!! > > First you have to run > > > Code: > padsp winecfg > > and select the OSS output under Audio. The other outputs should be toggled off. > > Then you can use any program via > > Code: > padsp wine myprogram.exe > > > > It works fine for me. I am using Teamspeak 2 and Steam/CS 1.6 with it.I would like to confirm that this is indeed working. Thank you very much! Sound barely worked at all before doing this; now it works perfectly. I had Rosetta Stone installed on a different computer that didn't have Pulse Audio, and it ran like a charm in WINE. On this one (the computer with Pulse Audio), there was a 0.5 second burst of sound (I'm assuming the beginning of the sound file) and then nothing else. Running wine with padsp remedies this. So yeah. I can confirm this method as a way to get around Pulse Audio. Job well done, kleinlohmi. Susan Cragin wrote:> I have gotten it to run with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Right now I am dictating into Notepad using it. Preliminary results show that the accuracy score yielded me a 28 or 29, versus 26 for alsa. The improvement in sound quality is probably statistically insignificant, but it is definitely not worse. > I can't tell yet if it's any slower at running the speech recognition engine.If it's of any interest, when I tried recording my voice in Rosetta Stone, I noticed a slight to noticeable lag at the beginning, causing my recording to start later. I don't know how reliable this is, considering I'm using a different app, but I thought you'd like to know. I now speak with a momentary pause at the beginning of my recordings. I'm not too familiar with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, but perhaps you could start speaking with momentary pauses? :-) (or test the theory out by running windows audio recorder or something)