On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:57 AM, mrmarcus <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > After upgrading wine from 1.3.27 -> 1.3.28 I found I got no sound when a > different application (which uses the sound) is running in the background. > > Workaround for me is to kill all sound, load up the wine application and > alt+tab back to start a non wine application. > It's not optimal but a workaround. > > But I would like to understand why this is happening. Why wine could > somehow not make a connection to the audio server. And visa versa it works. > > For relevance, I use opensuse tumbleweed with pulseaudio enabled. > > > > > Yes for some reason wine with alsa isn't creating a alsa-plugin in pulse anymore or something. It's strange. If I run winecfg, and click test sound, it used to create a alsa-plugin in pulse, it doesn't anymore. Now when I run a game it does create a wine-preloader plugin, but not alsa-plugin[wine-preloader], not sure how it works tbh. My fix from the 70 posts of testing still seems to work for me. It seems that pulse 0.9.23 somehow has new API's, bug fixes, that allows it and alsa to work better together. The problem is 0.9.23 for Ubuntu won't be backported to 11.04, since the new API's don't work nice I guess or something (if you read the bug report they say why)(and I have no clue what version is in OpenSuse tbh). I'd use 0.9.23 except the Gnome Sound Applet doesn't work with it, so I can't control sound volume easily, so I start 0.9.23, get sound from a pulse app running, kill 0.9.23 and start up the built in sound, then the sound applet works, but it seems to use 0.9.23 so now wine/pulse/alsa all play nice. Or as wine recommends just get rid of Pulse all together, and use alsa sound applets to control sound. I just personally like Pulse for everythign but wine. -- Sincerely, MacNean C. Tyrrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20110911/e07f618c/attachment.html>
