Wine 1.2 UBUNTU 10.04.1 Sound lost in an interrupt

[A Nonny Moose]

I can only vouch for one program, but this is reproducible.

Running SimCity4 occasionally when an interrupt occurs, sometimes as little as an extra mouse click and always on a context switch, the sound from the program is lost and does not recover.

The log for this is over 1400 lines, so I stuck it on my web site. Here is the URL.

[url]http://www.ezlink.ca/~jwinterton/sc4wine.log.tar.gz[/url]

If you think this is worth a bug report, I'll go fight with Bugzilla, but I would rather not.

[dimesio]

I can only vouch for one program, but this is reproducible.

Running SimCity4 occasionally when an interrupt occurs, sometimes as little as an extra mouse click and always on a context switch, the sound from the program is lost and does not recover.

Are you using PulseAudio?

[A Nonny Moose]

Configured for ALSA. Don't know if that uses a Pulse Audio system or not.

[A Nonny Moose]

While there appears to be a pulse or PCM capability in ALSA, I can find no documentation that confirms whether it uses PCM or not by default. They are so very proud of ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound ...) that they neglect to say what it is. This is typical of documentation written by programmers. Grrrr.

[dimesio]

While there appears to be a pulse or PCM capability in ALSA, I can find no documentation that confirms whether it uses PCM or not by default. They are so very proud of ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound ...) that they neglect to say what it is. This is typical of documentation written by programmers. Grrrr.

Ubuntu installs PulseAudio by default. It's known to cause problems in Wine, so the first step is to see if you can reproduce the problem without PulseAudio running. If you can't, it's not a Wine bug. See the sticky at the top of the forum.

[A Nonny Moose]

Thanks. Switched to the OSS driver and the problem disappeared. ALSA isn't all it is cracked up to be I guess.

There is a UBUNTU problem that I will report there. When the switch to OSS happens, all sound gets muted and the levels are turned very low as well. This being an unexpected result, I figure its their problem.