[Ubuntu 8.04][Audio+Games]No sound if I'm listening to music

[saffolino]

Hi! I have a problem.If I want to play quake 3 in wine (RC2) while listening to music with rhythmbox, q3 has no sound.If rhythmbox is closed q3 works fine, so I guess rhythmbox keeps busy the device.. there's a way to listen and play in the same time?[/i]

[Chad]

This is because of pulseaudio. I had the same issue. Try the following command from a terminal...

pkill pulseaudio

Then it should work ok (At least it did for me).

[saffolino]

Yes, it works. Thanks!

EDIT:

don't kill the process just set ALSA as default audio in System->Preferences->Audio

[jrinsa]

I was able to get this working by adding "padsp" to my launcher.. so this

env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Sling Media\SlingPlayer\SlingPlayer.exe"

became this

padsp env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Sling Media\SlingPlayer\SlingPlayer.exe"

I saw this solution somewhere else, -lost the link-not sure why or how this work, I vaguely remember something about that it creates PulseAudio Virtual OSS device. Hope this helps someone..

[Sleaka J]

I was able to get this working by adding "padsp" to my launcher.. so this

env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Sling Media\SlingPlayer\SlingPlayer.exe"

became this

padsp env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Sling Media\SlingPlayer\SlingPlayer.exe"

I saw this solution somewhere else, -lost the link-not sure why or how this work, I vaguely remember something about that it creates PulseAudio Virtual OSS device. Hope this helps someone..

The "padsp" command works similarly to the "aoss" command to force oss programs to use the alsa sound system, but still think it's using oss.