Wine 1.1.7: Sound regression?

Das Letzte Einhorn · Post by **Das Letzte Einhorn** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:13 pm

I have recently formatted my system in order to install Intrepid Ibex, and I am now using it with Wine 1.1.7. I did a backup of the prefixes of the games I was using in Hardy / Wine up to 1.1.5, and imported them in my new installment. The games work normally, but the sound is crackling all the time for each of them; something which was not happening in my former installment. I have not noticed any threads about that, therefore I am wondering if this is a regression coming into wine 1.1.7, an issue with the new ALSA driver contained in Intrepid Ibex, or if I have to change something in my configuration files.

My system config is

Intrepid Ibex / Wine 1.1.7
Q6600 + 4gb ram
Nvidia 8800GT
Sound Blaster Audigy 2

Should you need any other info, please ask. Thanks!

Edit: I forgot to include this, here is a log from one of the games (Knights of the Old Republic 2). I do not know if this relevant, but hopefully it is : http://pastebin.com/m7ad46b55

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:31 pm

Das Letzte Einhorn wrote:The games work normally, but the sound is crackling all the time for each of them; something which was not happening in my former installment.

Install older Wine version. If you have the same problem - then it's your OS. Most likely you still have pulseaudio active.

Das Letzte Einhorn · Post by **Das Letzte Einhorn** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:26 am

Pulseaudio does not come automatically with Intrepid Ibex I believe. I do not see the device chooser in the top right corner of the screen, like it used to be with Hardy Heron.

In order to be useful however, I would like to provide some debug output so that if the problem is located within wine, that it can be fixed for an upcoming version. If there are any commands I should run and provide the output, please mention them.

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:04 am

Are you using ALSA, and if so, does switching sound to OSS in winecfg solve the problem? If so, it could be this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14991

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:24 am

I have recently formatted my system in order to install Intrepid Ibex, and I am now using it with Wine 1.1.7. I did a backup of the prefixes of the games I was using in Hardy / Wine up to 1.1.5, and imported them in my new installment. The games work normally, but the sound is crackling all the time for each of them; something which was not happening in my former installment. I have not noticed any threads about that, therefore I am wondering if this is a regression coming into wine 1.1.7, an issue with the new ALSA driver contained in Intrepid Ibex, or if I have to change something in my configuration files.

My system config is

Intrepid Ibex / Wine 1.1.7
Q6600 + 4gb ram
Nvidia 8800GT
Sound Blaster Audigy 2

Should you need any other info, please ask. Thanks!

I am using Intrepid Studio with wine. Intrepid comes bundled with pulseaudio, and pulseaudio can cause sound problems in wine. In addition, killing it is not easy, because pasuspender is broken as of a couple of updates ago.
Try turning everything on, go to:
system / administration / system monitor / processes
and kill pulseaudio that way, and see if it helps.
For now, Intrepid Studio has a couple of problems. For instance, if you try to remove pulseaudio permanently, the system no longer starts up or shuts down cleanly.
You may wish to check the ubuntu bug list for known pulseaudio problems.

Das Letzte Einhorn · Post by **Das Letzte Einhorn** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:30 am

dimesio wrote:Are you using ALSA, and if so, does switching sound to OSS in winecfg solve the problem? If so, it could be this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14991

I am using ALSA

When I switch to OSS in winecfg, I get no sound.

The bug report looks a lot like the issue I have. I have commented on it.

sabby7890 · Post by **sabby7890** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:56 pm

Pulseaudio DOES come by default with Ubuntu, user just can't see it. Try
typing "killall pulseaudio" - it you won't see any output, it means that
PulseAudio was running. I was having the same issue with Interpid Ibex
and I added "killall pulseaudio" to my autostart (removing Pulseaudio
completely makes user not able to log in).

Dnia 2008-10-31, piÄ… o godzinie 21:13 -0500, Das Letzte Einhorn pisze:

I have recently formatted my system in order to install Intrepid Ibex, and I am now using it with Wine 1.1.7. I did a backup of the prefixes of the games I was using in Hardy / Wine up to 1.1.5, and imported them in my new installment. The games work normally, but the sound is crackling all the time for each of them; something which was not happening in my former installment. I have not noticed any threads about that, therefore I am wondering if this is a regression coming into wine 1.1.7, an issue with the new ALSA driver contained in Intrepid Ibex, or if I have to change something in my configuration files.

My system config is

Intrepid Ibex / Wine 1.1.7
Q6600 + 4gb ram
Nvidia 8800GT
Sound Blaster Audigy 2

Should you need any other info, please ask. Thanks!

Das Letzte Einhorn · Post by **Das Letzte Einhorn** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:35 am

sabby7890 wrote:Pulseaudio DOES come by default with Ubuntu, user just can't see it. Try
typing "killall pulseaudio" - it you won't see any output, it means that
PulseAudio was running. I was having the same issue with Interpid Ibex
and I added "killall pulseaudio" to my autostart (removing Pulseaudio
completely makes user not able to log in).

Dnia 2008-10-31, piÄ… o godzinie 21:13 -0500, Das Letzte Einhorn pisze:
I have recently formatted my system in order to install Intrepid Ibex, and I am now using it with Wine 1.1.7. I did a backup of the prefixes of the games I was using in Hardy / Wine up to 1.1.5, and imported them in my new installment. The games work normally, but the sound is crackling all the time for each of them; something which was not happening in my former installment. I have not noticed any threads about that, therefore I am wondering if this is a regression coming into wine 1.1.7, an issue with the new ALSA driver contained in Intrepid Ibex, or if I have to change something in my configuration files.

My system config is

Intrepid Ibex / Wine 1.1.7
Q6600 + 4gb ram
Nvidia 8800GT
Sound Blaster Audigy 2

Should you need any other info, please ask. Thanks!

Your solution worked. Thanks!

Warren Dumortier · Post by **Warren Dumortier** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:07 am

Affirmative, worked for me too!

But will this be fixed? It's very annoying...

2008/11/3 Das Letzte Einhorn <[email protected]>

sabby7890 wrote:
Pulseaudio DOES come by default with Ubuntu, user just can't see it. Try
typing "killall pulseaudio" - it you won't see any output, it means that
PulseAudio was running. I was having the same issue with Interpid Ibex
and I added "killall pulseaudio" to my autostart (removing Pulseaudio
completely makes user not able to log in).

Dnia 2008-10-31, pi± o godzinie 21:13 -0500, Das Letzte Einhorn pisze:

I have recently formatted my system in order to install Intrepid Ibex,
and I am now using it with Wine 1.1.7. I did a backup of the prefixes of
the games I was using in Hardy / Wine up to 1.1.5, and imported them in my
new installment. The games work normally, but the sound is crackling all the
time for each of them; something which was not happening in my former
installment. I have not noticed any threads about that, therefore I am
wondering if this is a regression coming into wine 1.1.7, an issue with the
new ALSA driver contained in Intrepid Ibex, or if I have to change something
in my configuration files.
My system config is

Intrepid Ibex / Wine 1.1.7
Q6600 + 4gb ram
Nvidia 8800GT
Sound Blaster Audigy 2

Should you need any other info, please ask. Thanks!

Your solution worked. Thanks!

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:50 pm

Warren Dumortier wrote:Affirmative, worked for me too!

But will this be fixed? It's very annoying...

You asking in the wrong place. This is pulseaudio problem not Wine. So you should file bug with Ubuntu.

Groeschel, Volker · Post by **Groeschel, Volker** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:26 pm

Have a look in bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15559
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