Wine USB sound is OSS only?

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:52 am

I have a USB soundcard that I have tried to run with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
It doesn't work unless I set winecfg to oss instead of alsa.
Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong?
How do I get alsa over USB?
Thanks,
Susan Cragin

wineappdb · Post by **wineappdb** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:27 pm

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:51:36 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Susan Cragin <[email protected]> wrote:

I have a USB soundcard that I have tried to run with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
It doesn't work unless I set winecfg to oss instead of alsa.
Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong?
How do I get alsa over USB?
Thanks,
Susan Cragin

This sounds like a alsa problem wine does nothing with USB directly.
Do Linux apps have sound ?
If your using Ubuntu 8.0.4 it uses PulseAudio by default, which I have replaced with alsa.

wineappdb · Post by **wineappdb** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:29 pm

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:11:43 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Susan Cragin <[email protected]> wrote:

And I uninstalled pulse, which screws up DNS / wine, and now the installation script doesn't work because there is apparently a mandatory pulse entry, and I have to use Gnome / failsafe.

I just checked my setup and I never removed PulseAudio. I have just removed it start up script from 'System > Preferences > Sessions' or 'gnome-session-properties'.

In that window the is an item called 'PulseAudio Session Management' just untick it.
If you try to remove the PulseAudio packages it will removed half of gnome....