Strange sound problems on Hardy

[powered_by_tux]

I am having a strange sound issue that affects all apps on Wine. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and have a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit. Wine version 1.0rc3 is configured to use the ALSA driver.

DirectSound hardware acceleration has been enabled a long time before using Hardy and has never caused any problems until now. Regularly the sound of a game/application completely drops until the application is restarted. Temporarily disabling PulseAudio does not solve the problem.

To workaround this problem I have set sound hardware acceleration to "Emulation". Audio will then continue to play, however it occasionally runs faster than it should until it "catches up".

Is this a known problem. Should this be reported as a bug? Many thanks for your responses.

[vitamin]

I am having a strange sound issue that affects all apps on Wine. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and have a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit. Wine version 1.0rc3 is configured to use the ALSA driver.

DirectSound hardware acceleration has been enabled a long time before using Hardy and has never caused any problems until now. Regularly the sound of a game/application completely drops until the application is restarted. Temporarily disabling PulseAudio does not solve the problem.

To workaround this problem I have set sound hardware acceleration to "Emulation". Audio will then continue to play, however it occasionally runs faster than it should until it "catches up".

Is this a known problem. Should this be reported as a bug? Many thanks for your responses.

Because your distro using pulseaudio - which is not compatible with most OSS/ALSA programs. Kill/disable/remove it. Then Wine will work again.

[powered_by_tux]

Thanks for your reply. I tried to disable Pulseaudio in Gnome Settings as well as using pasuspender. I even temporarily removed pulseaudio but the sound still drops after a while.

[vitamin]

Thanks for your reply. I tried to disable Pulseaudio in Gnome Settings as well as using pasuspender. I even temporarily removed pulseaudio but the sound still drops after a while.

The whole point in killing/disabling/removing pulseaudio is to stop it completely. Adding it's plugin to ALSA breaks ALSA so Wine can't use it.

[Susan Cragin]

How do your non-wine apps work? There are a lot of sound bugs in Hardy.
Try recording a sound using gnome's Sound Recorder and playing it back to yourself.
Do you have an hda-intel soundcard?

-----Original Message-----

From: vitamin <[email protected]>
Sent: Jun 6, 2008 3:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] Re: Strange sound problems on Hardy


powered_by_tux wrote:

Thanks for your reply. I tried to disable Pulseaudio (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio) in Gnome Settings as well as using pasuspender. I even temporarily removed pulseaudio but the sound still drops after a while.

The whole point in killing/disabling/removing pulseaudio is to stop it completely. Adding it's plugin to ALSA breaks ALSA so Wine can't use it.