ALSA Sound Regression

TaylorT · Post by **TaylorT** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:43 pm

Greetings,
I've used wine for several years now, but I've never really gotten involved with development so I'm not sure how or even where this would need to go.

I've found a regression in the latest (as of 1-1-09) git of wine; alsa sound doesn't appear to work. It did work from a version of wine I had cloned from git about a week earlier. It also works fine in 1.1.11 release. If I run winecfg and select ALSA as my drivers and push test sound I get a sound. But any other application that uses sound doesn't work. OSS causes very odd things, some times the sound will work fine but then it might 'pile up', and then all play at once after about 5 minutes. I've tried disabling pulseaudio for this as well...but it seems to work fine with it running with 1.1.11.

I've looked in bugzilla and didn't see a bug of this nature open, but I really don't know where to begin on what data to submit.

I run openSuSE 11.1, linux 2.6.27.7-9 (standard suse kernel) on an intel x86_64 quad core processor.

Hopefully I can be of some help if this is a problem, or maybe someone can direct me to what I'm doing wrong if that's the case

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Thanks!

Taylor

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:20 pm

TaylorT wrote:I've found a regression in the latest (as of 1-1-09) git of wine; alsa sound doesn't appear to work.

Works fine here. You sure you completely removed pulseaudio? It's not compatible with Wine and is a source of all the sound problems.

TaylorT · Post by **TaylorT** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:50 pm

vitamin wrote:
TaylorT wrote:I've found a regression in the latest (as of 1-1-09) git of wine; alsa sound doesn't appear to work.
Works fine here. You sure you completely removed pulseaudio? It's not compatible with Wine and is a source of all the sound problems.

Yes, but I can try again just to make sure. What's odd is that it's working fine WITH pulse running in 1.1.11, but not in latest.

[edit] which is ok, I could care less about using pulse or not. Unfortunately disabling it didn't do anything on my system. Later I'll try just removing it from the system out right.

M.Kiesel · Post by **M.Kiesel** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:54 pm

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, TaylorT wrote:

I've found a regression in the latest (as of 1-1-09) git of wine; alsa
sound doesn't appear to work. It did work from a version of wine I had
cloned from git about a week earlier. It also works fine in 1.1.11
release.

Perhaps you're seeing
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16607
- update again and/or try with 1.1.12.

While "pulseaudio" is mentioned several times in that bug's comments, note
that the actual bug occurs on ALSA-only systems, too.

Regards

TaylorT · Post by **TaylorT** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:03 pm

M.Kiesel wrote:On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, TaylorT wrote:

I've found a regression in the latest (as of 1-1-09) git of wine; alsa
sound doesn't appear to work. It did work from a version of wine I had
cloned from git about a week earlier. It also works fine in 1.1.11
release.
Perhaps you're seeing
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16607
- update again and/or try with 1.1.12.

While "pulseaudio" is mentioned several times in that bug's comments, note
that the actual bug occurs on ALSA-only systems, too.

Regards

Actually that looks very promising and I am using an intel-hda device. I'll try that later, thanks!

edit: that's it exactly, a new pull from todays git fixed it. Thanks again.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:44 pm

TaylorT wrote:edit: that's it exactly, a new pull from todays git fixed it. Thanks again.

Oh, thought that patch was committed earlier.

3vi1 · Post by **3vi1** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:00 pm

I am also using intel-hda w/Alsa and saw the regression on Kubuntu 9.04a2. I didn't get a chance to report it for a day or two, and happily discovered (updating git yesterday) it had been fixed before I got the time.

Keep up the great work, devs!