mikefreeman72 wrote: > > dimesio wrote: > > > > mikefreeman72 wrote: > > > So for Wine to drop support for PulseAudio > > > > > > > Wine has never had support for PulseAudio. The "winepulse" driver some distros ship is unofficial and unsupported. > > > > Wine's sound architecture is being overhauled. Some things will inevitably break along the way; bugs should be filed for real regressions. > > > > A link to http://wiki.winehq.org/Sound was posted in another thread. I suggest all of you having sound problems read it carefully. > > > Yes, I know. That's not exactly what I meant. I guess I should have worded that better. I should have said "So for Wine to drop support for the only workaround for PulseAudio that worked..." > > Basically, if I can't use the ESD driver, I can't use PulseAudio with Wine. If I can't use PulseAudio, my user experience with Wine on Ubuntu/Mint is worsened because I can't nicely fall back to alsa. That's what I meant. > > Now, if they are reworking the audio code, maybe things will eventually improve. I can be patient. It was just abrupt and frustrating to not know what was going on and why. For the record, back when PA and Wine had an incompatibility in Ubuntu (and when I used Ubuntu), I hacked away a very bad thing that allowed me to have sound. What I did was force Pulseaudio to go through DMIX instead of taking control over hw:0. This was great because I could have apps use Pulse and apps use ALSA directly. So I had Wine use ALSA and everything else use Pulse. It worked great for my needs, maybe you can temporarily do that? I don't know how you felt that ESD worked, but back in the days I used it, it was terrible -- in the sense that it lagged 1-2 s. So, in CS, I'd shoot and hear the shot 2 seconds later. Still, I don't get why Wine+PA doesn't work on these many machines. I've never had issues except for the one that forced me to hack away, and that was a one-time bug! As for the new overhaul, I'm not upgrading Wine until I see that everyone has relaxed with all these sound issues.
