On 07/26/2011 05:54 PM, Erufailon wrote:
I cannot understand why Wine Team did this. At the moment PulseAudio is the default audio driver in Ubuntu which means 95% of users is using it.<snip> Why do I need to lose the volume control which also controls the multimedia via hardware buttons?
There are other volume control programs that will work with your hardware buttons, my current system has never had any part of PulseAudio installed and all of my keyboard, speaker remote, etc. buttons for sound have always worked fine (OpenSuse 11.4) It would take some research and maybe some digging in the Ubuntu repos, but you should be able to find a control program that meets your needs.
All that are reasonable questions. Any update should make things easier for the majority of the people and not force them to change their system configuration.
But I don't think Ubuntu users are the majority of Wine users and in general people have had much more trouble with their sound through Wine when using Pulse then without it. This has been a long time coming - people on the list have been answering Pulse related sound issue questions for ages and it just isn't worth it when the program isn't necessary.
At least they could have warned us that anyone who has PulseAudio not to install the update.
I agree that it can take some searching to find 'update' or 'patch note' type information that is understandable to non-devs, but if I remember correctly there are links on the WineHQ page that will take you to the changes for each version. There is also a sticky about sound issues at the top of the forums the specifically addresses PulseAudio as a major problem.
All of that said - after updating to 1.3.25 the only program of mine through Wine that now gets any sound at all is LotRO, sound is broken for everything else (WoW, Teamspeak, anything through Steam, STO, Champions Online). And that is with the KDE default sound backend and no PulseAudio anything, time to go digging through settings and such and seeing what I can find! :)
