On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:28 PM, jorl17 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Let me try to make this clear. > > Pulseaudio talks to ALSA. However, it is usually setup to talk to the ALSA > device hw:0, which is the hardware. So, Pulseaudio hogs the hardware device > and no other app can access it. This is ok, because ALSA is setup to route > every other application (if that app is well configured) to another ALSA > "device" called pulse, which, in turn, sends it to Pulseaudio. So when an > application that uses ALSA directly runs, it goes like this: > > App -> ALSA -> ALSA pulse device -> Pulseaudio -> ALSA hw:0 device > (hardware). > > Before Pulseaudio, as you may know, people used dmix to do software mixing. > Sure, Pulseaudio offers a range of other features, but you can still use > dmix today. The idea here is to have Wine "bypass" Pulseaudio completely, > and talk to ALSA directly. To do this, Pulseaudio must stop "hogging" the > hw:0 device, so it must go through another device we create called, for > instance, dmixed. This dmixed device supports software mixing through dmix > and, thus, can be accessed by Pulseaudio and other applications as well. It > would still default to sending applications to Pulseaudio, but if you > configured your application to request the dmixed device, you'd be bypassing > the whole Pulseaudio "mess". So this is what would happen: > > Regular App -> ALSA -> ALSA pulse device -> Pulseaudio -> ALSA dmixed -> > hw:0 device (hardware). > > Wine -> ALSA -> ALSA dmixed device -> hw:0 device (hardware) > > Wine can be configured to do this with registry keys. The devices can be > fairly easy created by editing the $HOME/.asoundrc file. The question here > is how to redirect Pulseaudio to the ALSA dmixed device instead of the hw:0 > one. > > To be honest, since I moved to Gentoo I've left Pulseaudio completely. The > only feature I missed was recording the PC sound and I've fixed that on my > own with plain ALSA. However, I still remember doing something similar to > this in ubuntu, so if it hasn't changed, you can change the default > Pulseaudio alsa device from hw:0 by editing the /etc/pulse/default.pa file > and adding the following at the end: > load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop:0 > load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmixed:0 > > Of course this assumes that you have created a dsnoop device and a dmix > device (in $HOME/.asoundrc). dsnoop allows for record software mixing and > dmix for playback software mixing. > > If you'd like to try this, do say, as it *might* help you solve your > problems...let's just hope it doesn't add any other. > > I Think I may try this. I'll have to refresh my memory (ie google) on how to create a good .asoundrc file again. Ty for the information/help. Will let you know how I make out. > Cheers, > Jorl17 > > > > > > -- Sincerely, MacNean C. Tyrrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20110905/11930cb7/attachment.html>
