Hi. I can confirm that pulse does indeed work quite well with wine. I've been using oss emulation and padsp together for a long time now, and I've had very few if any problems with it. I simply use Code: aoss padsp wine whatever and it's fine. I don't know if I need to use padsp after aoss after reading this thread, but it's what I've been doing. So pulse does mostly work after all, if only I didn't need to preface everything with these commands.
thorin wrote:> Hi. I can confirm that pulse does indeed work quite well with wine. I've been using oss emulation and padsp together for a long time now, and I've had very few if any problems with it. > > I simply use > Code: > aoss padsp wine > > whatever and it's fine. I don't know if I need to use padsp after aoss after reading this thread, but it's what I've been doing. So pulse does mostly work after all, if only I didn't need to preface everything with these commands.It is known that this works, but you don't need to use padsp. I also think that if everything is routed with padsp first (which doesn't necessarily *have* to happen) you lose surround. Additionally, I only had the need for such dirty tricks during 0.9.x -- 1.0.0 and 1.0.5 -- 1.0.14 IIRC. Nowadays Wine works flawlessly with pulseaudio and alsa. No need for OSS, pasuspender or anything like that. I configured pulseaudio just like people on the Ubuntu Forums recommend us to. In spite of this, I know that many people have problems with Pulseaudio and that others have Pulseaudio-hatred (much like Linux/Microsoft/Banana-hatred).
Well, basically every version has worked for me except for those that I mentioned (they had crackly sound). The Microphone works flawlessly too (I use some FOSS apps similar to Skype in Wine). At the time, I remember I read: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578 Ever since I've been following that on every Ubuntu install I have and sound always works -- just like that. What kind of microphone do you have? Is it a USB-one? That usually messes things... I have also used Ventrilo without any issues (except for a crash when clicking a button), so, as you see, it's been perfect :) I do remember the time when I had crackly sound. To solve that, I ticked OSS and starter running wine with aoss. I didn't use padsp because some people claimed aoss was better and because padsp occasionally locked my system up (maybe a sound module issue).