Change -- The program I test with is Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Yesterday's Ubuntu updates produced a rash of pulseaudio changes, and suddenly alsa works with wine, without stumbling. Today's secret to making it work: In System/Preferences/Startup applications, uncheck pulseaudio sudo apt-get install esound sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf autospawn = no Then every time your computer starts, run killall pulseaudio in terminal first. (Because the Startup Applications menu doesn't really work.) I trained and ran Dragon NaturallySpeaking without a problem. I also tried oss yesterday, and that seemed to be working again, too. I usually follow the above directions but do not install esound or kill pulseaudio and then run the wine app with padsp. If anyone has any different experiences with today's karmic updates, I would be interested to hear about them. Susan
2009/8/28 Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net>:> Change -- The program I test with is Dragon NaturallySpeaking. > > Yesterday's Ubuntu updates produced a rash of pulseaudio changes, and suddenly alsa works with wine, without stumbling. > Today's secret to making it work: > In System/Preferences/Startup applications, uncheck pulseaudio > sudo apt-get install esoundWhy do you need to install esound?> sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf > autospawn = no > Then every time your computer starts, run killall pulseaudio in terminal first. > (Because the Startup Applications menu doesn't really work.)Painful bug in Ubuntu. Yet another reason why I stay away from it at all costs :)> I trained and ran Dragon NaturallySpeaking without a problem.Excellent news!
Yesterday's Ubuntu updates produced a rash of pulseaudio changes, and suddenly alsa works with wine, without stumbling. Today's secret to making it work: In System/Preferences/Startup applications, uncheck pulseaudio sudo apt-get install esound -------- Why do you need to install esound? I don't know. I've taken it for granted that some kind of mixer is needed. Perhaps because I don't use the default sound card, the on-board card. Maybe I don't need esound at all. Or maybe if I could permanently make my Creative X-fi card the default. Right now, to do that, I have to revert back to the alsa-utils from Jaunty and use asoundconf set-default-card. (The newest alsa-utils does not include this handy tool.) -------- sudo nano /etc/pulse/client.conf autospawn = no Then every time your computer starts, run killall pulseaudio in terminal first. (Because the Startup Applications menu doesn't really work.) -------- Painful bug in Ubuntu. Yet another reason why I stay away from it at all costs :) What do you use? -------- I trained and ran Dragon NaturallySpeaking without a problem. Excellent news! Yeah. I read somewhere that Ubuntu has made pulseaudio removable partly because of this very program, which of course is a great assistance to people with mild RSI, who can use a keyboard for some things, but tire easily when entering large amounts of text.
>>Why do you need to install esound?>ALSA has shipped with "dmix" by default since shortly after 1.0 was >released, though I think Ubuntu's pulse config can screw with it even >after pulseaudio is removed.I'd forgotten about dmix, it's been so long. Good old dmix and dsnoop (which is what I need for incoming sound). I THINK MAYBE dmix works and dsnoop does not, because it's listed when I open Audacity. I'll have to give it a try. However, without installing esound, I don't see "dmix" and "dsnoop" but I do see "default." And "default" freezes. Perhaps that's them, and they just don't work?