How to lock a sounddriver to application?

arjenv · Post by **arjenv** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:25 am

Hi,

I am able to run several applications (games) using Wine. Some apps work fine with the ALSA driver, some with the OSS. I noticed it is only possible to set the wine sound driver as a default setting, so for all apps at once. This means I have to select the appropriate sound driver which goes with a certain application. This is frustrating, and hard to explain to my wife and children

Is there a way to make wine use a particular sound driver for an application? Why is it not possible to make the sound driver a application specific setting?

Kind regards,

Arjen, Holland

Ps, I run latest stable wine under Ubuntu 9.04

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:39 am

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:25 AM, arjenv<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

I am able to run several applications (games) using Wine. Some apps work fine with the ALSA driver, some with the OSS. I noticed it is only possible to set the wine sound driver as a default setting, so for all apps at once. This means I have to select the appropriate sound driver which goes with a certain application. This is frustrating, and hard to explain to my wife and children Â :?

Is there a way to make wine use a particular sound driver for an application? Why is it not possible to make the sound driver a application specific setting?

Kind regards,

Arjen, Holland

Ps, I run latest stable wine under Ubuntu 9.04

It's not (currently) possible to separate them out. If it's possible
at all, I don't know...I've been told it's not, but I don't know the
sound architechure that well.

You can setup two WINEPREFIX's to do that...
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-Austin