Wine requires direct access to sound device(s) to make sound. This is true for both ALSA and OSS driver back-ends. However most sound servers are not compatible with neither of these back-ends. This also true about pulse-audio - it is not fully compatible with Wine.

If you using new distro (Fedora 8, Ubuntu 8.04, SuSE 11) and do not have sound you should:
1. Report problem to your distro support
2. Disable or even remove pulse-audio

In case some one have a recipe to make pulse-audio work with wine - post it. Only please DO NOT post stuff like "I don't know what I did but it's working". Figure it out first. Then let everyone know.

To disable PulseAudio in new Ubuntu versions
(Contributed by Susan Cragin).
Here's what I do to run audio applications in wine.
in terminal:

uncomment and change this line as follows:
(Otherwise killing pulseaudio has no effect, it just re-starts automatically.)

In terminal, every time you boot up, type:

vitamin wrote:

Will pasuspender work in these circumstances?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

I'm guessing not always: viewtopic.php?p=8505#8505

Im using Fedora 9 with a few apps that need sound, and got no problems with PA running so far.
By the way, you maybe mention Fedora 9.

pasuspender is card dependant and the author of pulse will not change it.

Reason if card does not have a onboard mixer pasuspender will not start dmix to replace the mixer part when pulse audio is disabled.

Please complain to pulseaudio about this. pasuspender really should warn users they are walking into limited function.

Hi,
i am using Wine successfully with Pulseaudio via padsp!!

First you have to run

and select the OSS output under Audio. The other outputs should be toggled off.

Then you can use any program via


It works fine for me. I am using Teamspeak 2 and Steam/CS 1.6 with it.

The problem with this solution - you adding extra conversion OSS -> ALSA. This never worked properly in all cases with ALSA before. And I doubt it's any better with pulse audio.

Also note that OSS is not the recommended sound driver in Wine anymore. And it does not support the full HW acceleration in your configuration. This does affect sound quality on lots of programs.

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I have gotten it to run with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Right now I am dictating into Notepad using it. Preliminary results show that the accuracy score yielded me a 28 or 29, versus 26 for alsa. The improvement in sound quality is probably statistically insignificant, but it is definitely not worse.
I can't tell yet if it's any slower at running the speech recognition engine.

-----Original Message-----
Perhaps I am premature. The program runs but crashes every once in a while.

I would like to confirm that this is indeed working. Thank you very much! Sound barely worked at all before doing this; now it works perfectly. I had Rosetta Stone installed on a different computer that didn't have Pulse Audio, and it ran like a charm in WINE. On this one (the computer with Pulse Audio), there was a 0.5 second burst of sound (I'm assuming the beginning of the sound file) and then nothing else. Running wine with padsp remedies this.

So yeah. I can confirm this method as a way to get around Pulse Audio.

Job well done, kleinlohmi.


If it's of any interest, when I tried recording my voice in Rosetta Stone, I noticed a slight to noticeable lag at the beginning, causing my recording to start later. I don't know how reliable this is, considering I'm using a different app, but I thought you'd like to know. I now speak with a momentary pause at the beginning of my recordings. I'm not too familiar with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, but perhaps you could start speaking with momentary pauses? (or test the theory out by running windows audio recorder or something)

EDIT: with the following i thought i was on a home run but my sound lags.

hi all, wine sound works with me as follows:

fresh install of ubuntu 8.04 (gnome), added any pulseaudio plugins i could find
run playonlinux so i could wineprefix any game with individual wine versions

setup esd as audio driver in winecfg (made sure alsa was not selected as well)

tested with playing mp3 with mplayer and starting wine game (myth 2). I got sound from both programs. Also run teamspeak and got sound while testing the mic.

the idea was not mine, i found it over some ubuntu forums if i remember correctly.

i am on a laptop listening via headphones so sound quality / surround is not an issue with me. (in case someone starts saying alsa is better etc )

EDIT: I SHOULD KNOW BETTER FROM POSTING B4 FULL TESTING. i get sound now with the above but it lags, go figure,

as i do like the pulseaudio server, i do not want to remove it completely.

instead, each time i want to run a program thru wine i kill the pulseaudio.
can be done by a hotkey or shortcut.

' killall pulseaudio

done. Sound works.

and when u want pulseaudio to run again, use this

' pulseaudio

even simpler.

So if you make shortcuts or hotkeys, this is a piece of cake.

stop pulseaudio: ' killall pulseaudio
start pulseaudio: ' pulseaudio

p.s.: if you start pulseaudio again in a terminal, dont forget to start it
as a deamon detached from the terminal or
it will get terminated when you close your terminal emulator.

p.p.s: who ever has read this has been reading it. ÖÖÖÖÖsdaäpkre,m dunno

Hello,

PulseAudio is not a problem. You can use the OSS Emulation of PA, it works perfectly. (I saw a test with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and it seems imply that it's good, isn't it ?)

I used padsp for a while when a beautiful project was born : WinePulse. I'm actually testing it with the main (and only) developer of this PulseAudio backend for Wine and recently he made it working on my Ubuntu 8.10 with PulseAudio 0.9.10. So it's not yet a full implementation and WaveIn doesn't work for me, but it will be fine and I hope integrated in Wine.

Do you have a link to that DNS test with PA and OSS?
Thanks,
Susan Cragin

I maybe badly expressed myself, I spoke simply of yours.

Then the origina solution stands - remove pulseaudio it's not compatible with Wine. Like any other sound server it plain _DOES NOT WORK_.

I've got my Pulseaudio working perfectly with Wine (such that I can run my music player while some Wine app is running, and no, I don't have hardware mixing).

I just use alsa-oss (that's the name of the package in Ubuntu). Its 32-bit only, but I just extracted it to lib32 in my 64-bit Ubuntu Intrepid install. So when I run my app, I run it with:-

aoss wine executable.exe <any_options>

And I've set output to OSS within winecfg. Pulse plays MUCH better with ALSA than OSS, and aoss allows Wine to believe that its got total control of the sound device.

An alternative would be to use JACK, but setting that up to work with Pulse is a headache, though I've done it also. No benefit, though, unless you're already running JACK all the time.

Alsa-OSS and PulseAudio ? So Wine <=> OSS <=> ALSA (pulse) <=> PulseAudio <=> ALSA (hw) ? I prefer use padsp to take off the "ALSA (pulse)" part, even if I lose the "hardware control". But I agree : OSS backend is very good and I've played a long time with it.

For JACK : "aoss jackd -d oss" works fine (Wine <=> JACK <=> OSS <=> ALSA (pulse) <=> PulseAudio <=> ALSA (hw))

For info : the new WinePulse 0.10 works fine on WaveOut (with a little (<1s) latency), and I'll read some doc to help Art in this development so I hope it will be easier to use directly WinePulse in a "'few" time.

Ah, a Pulse output for Wine would be superb, esp for users of distros which default to Pulse (Ubuntu and Fedora AFAIK, there are a few more). Thank you to all who are working on this, and on Wine.