[Wine] Re: Pulse audo in 1.3.25+

[jorl17]

dardack wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:00 PM, dardack <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > OK, so I had to comment out the udev part, but not the idle part.
> > 
> > However, wine is still creating alsa-plugins in pulse.  I don't think it's
> > communicating directly to alsa hw.  How do i make it choose alsa hw over
> > pulse.
> > 
> > I did find an update alsa-driver/plugin ppa for 10.04.  Trying it out, but
> > still it's a alsa plugin into pulse with wine, would like to skin this.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Ok the ppa was working until i rebooted.  Now whatever grabs the sound
> > 
> first has sound.  If a reg app grabs it, wine doesn't, if wine grabs it,
> reg apps don't get it.  They show up (reg apps) in applications under sound
> pref's, but now sound, until wine releases.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> 
> MacNean C. Tyrrell
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Ok. Now this may be some kind of Wine-Pulseaudio incompatibility again. So what we're going to do is use Wine's settings to force it to use the duplex_for_pulse device, instead of the default one, which points to pulse.

This is farily easy, according to the ALSA keys in http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

For instance here's an example:

[Software\\Wine\\Alsa Driver] 1315011634
"AutoScanCards"="N"
"AutoScanDevices"="N"
"DeviceCount"="1"
"DeviceCTL1"="duplex_for_pulse"
"DevicePCM1"="duplex_for_pulse"
"UseDirectHW"="N"

However, I think you might run into an issue due to not having defined a ctl.duplex_for_pulse, but we'll get there. For now just create those entries so that they match this. BTW, it isn't advised, but you can paste that snippet in the ~/.wine/user.reg file at the end (be sure to back it up first!) and it should work. To make sure you're testing wine's sound, do a wineserver -k and then open up winecfg to test the sound.

Cheers,
Jorl17