Crackaly Audio 1.4-rc2, but not 1.3.15

Rafter · Post by **Rafter** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:22 pm

So, I recently upgraded to 11.04 from 10.10, and mostly things have been fine. One of the things though is that pulse was freshly installed again, and as expected, this caused issues. So, just for kicks, I uninstalled wine, deleted my .wine, and then installed the beta package wine from the software center and out of the blue the sound worked fine! Ofcourse, games were laggy and/or impossible to play (portal 2, swbf2, LoL, etc.) but the sound was fantastic. The sound test button in winecfg sounded good too.

So, I though I had just had a wrong setting and so I updated my beta wine which made it 1.4-rc2. Now all the graphics are smooth and games are playable again, but the sound crackles like rice krispies.
The really odd thing though is there really are no error reports. The only thing that appears when I press 'Test Sound' in winecfg is this:

err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded

My hope is that there is a relatively simple solution to this problem which DOES NOT remove or disable pulseaudio. I like it, it works for everything else, and I do not want to screw up my system (again).

Thanks in advance.
Rafter

P.S. This is my first forum post like, ever. So if I need to give more info please let me know.

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:34 pm

Rafter wrote:So, I though I had just had a wrong setting and so I updated my beta wine which made it 1.4-rc2.

Current Wine is 1.4-rc4, and there should be another release tomorrow. Upgrade; this is a known bug that is being worked on, and according to the most recent comments in the bug report, things did improve with 1.4-rc3. Also, make sure you have the latest versions of alsa and pulseaudio installed.

Rafter · Post by **Rafter** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:41 am

Thanks for the quick response. So now here comes the noob question: how do I get my synaptic install of wine to update to rc4? I tried sudo apt-get update, as well as ...install wine1.3, both of which said I am up to date, yet I still have rc2. If I compile it from source how do I have it overwrite my current version instead of being an additional version? The official launchpad for wine does indeed have rc2 being the most recent wine for Natty

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy · Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:42 am

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 15:41, Rafter <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks for the quick response. So now here comes the noob question: how do I get my synaptic install of wine to update to rc4? I tried sudo apt-get update, as well as ...install wine1.3, both of which said I am up to date, yet I still have rc2. If I compile it from source how do I have it overwrite my current version instead of being an additional version? The official launchpad for wine does indeed have rc2 being the most recent wine for Natty

Kindly ask the packager?

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:08 am

Rafter wrote:If I compile it from source how do I have it overwrite my current version instead of being an additional version?

Wine can be run from the build directory. Don't install it, and you can leave your distro package in place.

Rafter · Post by **Rafter** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:36 pm

Okey, i ran things with rc4 and it worked wonderfully. Thank you!

Rafter · Post by **Rafter** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:17 pm

Ok, so not to beat a dead horse, but after using wine 1.4-rc4 for a few days the crackling came back. Don't say it, I already compiled rc5 and tried it as well and it also has the crackly sound issue. As a side note I play LoL and I found that along with the crackling the normal sounds do play, but are played very quickly (including the embedded videos). Finally, there is still only one error:
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded

Thoughts?

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:53 pm

Rafter wrote:Ok, so not to beat a dead horse, but after using wine 1.4-rc4 for a few days the crackling came back. Don't say it, I already compiled rc5 and tried it as well and it also has the crackly sound issue. As a side note I play LoL and I found that along with the crackling the normal sounds do play, but are played very quickly (including the embedded videos). Finally, there is still only one error:
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded

Thoughts?

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28282
Make sure you're using the latest PulseAudio (1.1) and alsa (1.0.25).