Susan Cragin
2009-Aug-19 20:03 UTC
[Wine] FYI -- Just to let you know of potential sound problems
I have the latest version of Ubuntu Studio (Karmic) and just re-installed it today. I use non-pulse applications, including Audacity and Dragon NaturallySpeaking running under wine. I have tried disabling pulseaudio every way I know how. I am getting no sound, mostly due to what are described as timeout errors. Ubuntu has been working to make it run with pulseaudio properly disabled, so that the few of us who don't want it don't have to have it. There is now an option among System / Preferences / Startup Applications that prevents it from starting up. But the whole thing appears to have growing pains, and more than a few bugs. (I filed one or two.) I have been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for years and I thought I knew every work-around in the book to get sound running without pulseaudio, either using alsa or oss or alsa-oss. I have tried most of them in the past 3 days, but I'm giving up, and waiting for updates. It's NOT a wine problem, I don't think, because Audacity doesn't run either.
Kiernan Holland
2009-Aug-19 21:56 UTC
[Wine] FYI -- Just to let you know of potential sound problems
I don't know if this would help, but a ways back I was reading about how to speed up 9.04, and someone said to replace Pulse with Esound.. It seems to work, but I don't know what it is actually doing. Here is a tutorial I made on youtube covering it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN70LNMdGo0 There is also a tutorial somewhere about why not to remove pulse, that it removes gnome-desktop.. I also don't know what the problem is with that.> I have been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for years and I thought I knew > every work-around in the book to get sound running without pulseaudio, > either using alsa or oss or alsa-oss. I have tried most of them in the past > 3 days, but I'm giving up, and waiting for updates. > It's NOT a wine problem, I don't think, because Audacity doesn't run > either. > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20090819/f972a1d4/attachment.htm>
Susan Cragin
2009-Aug-19 22:52 UTC
[Wine] FYI -- Just to let you know of potential sound problems
I don't know if this would help, but a ways back I was reading about how to speed up 9.04, and someone said to replace Pulse with Esound.. It seems to work, but I don't know what it is actually doing. Here is a tutorial I made on youtube covering it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN70LNMdGo0 There is also a tutorial somewhere about why not to remove pulse, that it removes gnome-desktop.. I also don't know what the problem is with that. ----------- Thanks. Esound is what I was using before. It uses oss (or in my case, I think, alsa-oss). I was using the following set of directions, and they worked until recently. sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-source pulseaudio sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) module-assistant alsa-source esound sudo dpkg-reconfigure alsa-source sudo module-assistant a-i alsa-source reboot Maybe I'll try again, and watch your video.
Susan Cragin
2009-Aug-20 13:10 UTC
[Wine] FYI -- Just to let you know of potential sound problems
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Susan Cragin
2009-Aug-25 12:58 UTC
[Wine] FYI -- Just to let you know of potential sound problems
-----Original Message----- Sound problem running alsa-oss without pulseaudio have been FIXED today with release of 2.6.31-2-rt. So update kernel to that. I assume there was a corresponding fix with the generic kernel. Yay! The brief improvement that allowed straight alsa to be used so well has not come back but maybe it's only a matter of time. -----New Message------- Sound problem has REAPPEARED with 2.6.31-3-rt. SIGH. So don't update to this one if you use OSS. Back to the bug report.