[Wine] Re: Ubuntu 6.06, wine and ALSA

[Huk]

Daniel Skorka wrote:
> Huk <Flashpoint at op.pl> wrote:
> > I got some strange problem when running wine with ALSA as sound driver.
> > For example: when I run mdk2 (I compiled wine myself version 0.9.22 -
> > newest for now) sound is very noisy and crack'y and I get tons of this
> > errors:
> >
> > err:dsound:DSOUND_MixInBuffer length not a multiple of block size, len
> > = 3122, block size = 4
> [...]
>
> Nothing new about that. dsound has always had problems, and a fix still
> seems to be quite far away.
>
> > When I chose OSS as my sound driver it runs very good altought I also
> > get tons of above errors.
>
> In that case, just use OSS.
>
> > When I run winecfg and chose sound i get this in my terminal:
> >
> > james at james-desktop:/media/hdb5/mdk2$ winecfg
> > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:762:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports
> > only playback stream
> > - using device default
> > - using device default
> > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:762:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports
> > only playback stream
> > - using device default
> > - using device default
> >
> > Can this be the couse? How do I fix it?
>
> It might be that using direct hardware access without going through
> ALSA's dmix plugin could lead to better sound. Of course, you would
> loose the ability to have multiple accesses to the sound card at the
> same time.
> 
> Daniel


Thank you for the info