winecfg: Problems with audio configuration

Robert Reif reif at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 2 18:26:57 CST 2006


Vitaliy Margolen wrote:

>Monday, January 2, 2006, 2:55:38 PM, Robert Reif wrote:
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>>Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
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>>>I have noticed significant increase in crashes and lockups in winecfg's
>>>audio page. Could we do something about that before the next release?
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>>I agree with you but can you be more specific?
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>I'm afraid I can't. It all works here. But all the reports I get from
>people on #winehq don't have that much details.
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Same here. Works for me too.

>I had one person who had winecfg crash each time he went to audio tab.
>Installing arts & esd didn't help - same result. It was a pre-compiled
>binaries.
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>If such a crash would happen what would you be interested in? (what debug
>channels, system information, etc.?)
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We need enough information to determine where the problem is.  The problem
could be a kernel driver problem (broken hardware and/or software), a sound
system problem (oss, alsa, arts, esd,...), a distribution problem 
(kernel version
and configuration),  a wine driver bug or missing feature, or a wine 
direct sound
or winmm bug or missing feature, or even an application assumption problem.
The problem is really complex due to the large number of variables and the
potential for multiple failures.

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>>>This makes it hard for any first timer to configure wine. Especially
>>>knowing that most people will have to change hardware acceleration to
>>>"emulation" and they will not be able to do so.
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>>This is a good example of a workaround for a broken driver, soundcard,
>>or driver/soundcard configuration.  The same is also true for Windows
>>where this same workaround works the same way there for broken
>>drivers.
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>Well I'm not sure how about other configurations, but on mine I can not
>set it to anything else with any driver I have. My system is nForce 2
>with ALSA HW drivers.
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You probably have a fixed frequency/format soundcard and the application 
doesn't
bother to set the primary buffer format or sets it to an unsupported 
setting.  You can
either reconfigure ALSA to use dmix or plughw or use a patch I submitted to
wine-bugs to fix a foobar2000 problem.  This is either a configuration 
issue or
an application that doesn't support wines windows 95 assumptions.  It 
could also
be a hardware/driver issue.






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