22.10.2014 22:21, I wrote: > Of course, this only applies to ALSA devices that can't use tsched, as > well as to OSS on more exotic platforms. > > This is needed for compatibility with Wine games that use DirectSound8 > on distributions such as Arch Linux who don't accept the unofficial > winepulse patch. The reason is that Wine DirectSound8 emulation requests > a period of 10 ms and expects it to work for the purposes of timing. And > in fact, it cannot know (via ALSA API) that it is not going to work! I hereby withdraw the patch, as on IRC I see that Arun said: """ I'm not too happy with changing that. It would affect CPU on systems that don't care about Wine. and I really really don't want to work around bad clients in PA. (despite the fact that I am also bitten by this bug) ... Want to start a BrokenClients page? """ (note: due to the "cannot know" reason, I still disagree that it is a client-side problem) -- Alexander E. Patrakov
