thorin wrote:> Hello. In the previous version of ubuntu, karmic, I had countless problems
with wine and pulseaudio...
>
> Basically, I think Ubuntu Lucid has fixed any issues with pulseaudio and
wine.
That seems to be my experience too.
I only have a few applications running under Wine and just two of those need
MIDI playback for which I use fluidsynth.
On upgrading to Ubuntu Lucid, I had problems starting fluidsynth as it tried
loading Jack which would then crash so no midi. Eventually I told fluidsynth to
use alsa and it then loaded fine and I found I got my midi playback without
having to disable pulseaudio.
Let's hope it is fixed as it looks like PA is pretty closely integrated into
Lucid. I am not a programmer so I am not aware of all the technical details but
it does seem that you cannot access the audio settings in Lucid without PA.
Geoff
