I have a USB soundcard that I have tried to run with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It doesn't work unless I set winecfg to oss instead of alsa. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? How do I get alsa over USB? Thanks, Susan Cragin
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:51:36 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net> wrote:> I have a USB soundcard that I have tried to run with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. > It doesn't work unless I set winecfg to oss instead of alsa. > Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? > How do I get alsa over USB? > Thanks, > Susan CraginThis sounds like a alsa problem wine does nothing with USB directly. Do Linux apps have sound ? If your using Ubuntu 8.0.4 it uses PulseAudio by default, which I have replaced with alsa.
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:11:43 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net> wrote:> And I uninstalled pulse, which screws up DNS / wine, and now the installation script doesn't work because there is apparently a mandatory pulse entry, and I have to use Gnome / failsafe.I just checked my setup and I never removed PulseAudio. I have just removed it start up script from 'System > Preferences > Sessions' or 'gnome-session-properties'. In that window the is an item called 'PulseAudio Session Management' just untick it. If you try to remove the PulseAudio packages it will removed half of gnome....