[Bug 10031] Steams blocks all other OSS sound

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Sun Oct 14 10:42:02 CDT 2007


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10031


Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at>  2007-10-14 10:42:02 ---
I am not the sound expert, but I am afraid that this isn't fixable with oss, it
needs alsa.

Steam holds the sound device opened, and the game tries to use it too. No
problem on Windows, no problem on Alsa. But OSS allows only one app to open it,
unless you install some additional software mixer or you have harware mixing
support. On Alsa dmix is used for that by default.

You should really use Alsa nowadays on Wine, the Alsa backend improved a lot in
the last months.


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