wine/problem with sound interference

[Walt H]

That's very common. As long as another application is accessing your 
sound hardware, it will be locked and unable to be used by other 
applications. Nowadays, many distributions include gnome/kde which each 
have their own sound daemons (esd/artsd). If you are using a somewhat 
recent linux distribution and have kde/gnome running, there might be a 
workaround for your sound issue. Under KDE, start up the app using 
soundwrapper - under gnome, use esddsp. Both are similar. Instead of the 
normal "wine application.exe" command use: "soundwrapper wine 
application.exe" or "esddsp wine application.exe" to start it.
Also, as the previous poster mentioned (in a roundabout way), if your 
original post is accurate, you are using a very old verion of wine. 
Consider upgrading as many bugs have been fixed since then. HTH,

-Walt

Peter Petersen wrote:

>>> Using wine 20000109 I notice a slightly annoying problem with wine when
>>> trying to launch Forte Agent:
>>> 
>>> As long as any sound is played under linux, Forte Agent (or perhaps any
>>> other windows program?) doesn't start. I have to stop all sound and then
>>> wine launches Forte Agent.
>>> 
>>> Why is that so, and is there a command line parameter to solve that
>>> issue?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Peter(sen)
>> 
>> Who cares?  That is sort of like asking why Linux kernel 1.2.12 doesn't
>> do a very good job of autodetecting USB hardware.
> 
> 
> I care.
> And if you don't have anything better to contribute, you may as well be
> quiet.
> I never complained about this fact, I only asked why this is so, get it?
> 
> Peter