ALSA and an intel i8x0/SiS SI7012 sound card

[Rick Knight]

Henk Poley wrote:

>Rick Knight wrote:
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>>Michael Graham wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've been try to get sound in wine (20040121) working on my machine for
>>>while now. As you've probably guessed I've got a SiS 7012 (which uses
>>>the intel i8x0 modules) and alsa (either natively or OSS emulation.)
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>>I have an Intel MB with the i8x0 on-board sound. I tried for about 4
>>weeks to get sound working with ALSA and Wine (for a couple of games)
>>and was never able to. ALSA worked fine for Linux only stuff but not for
>>Wine. I finally dumped ALSA and installed the kernel OSS driver,
>>i810_audio, and everything works now. I would prefer to use ALSA, but I
>>want to be able to get sound in my Wine apps so, for now, no ALSA.
>>
>>If you find a solution, please post here.
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>Hmm, I don't have a 'solution', but I use the aRts sound deamon on this
>machine, also has SiS7012 on-boards sound, and it just works with Wine.
>aRts itself plugs in to ALSA.
>
>Just in case, you can enable the aRts soundbackend like this:
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>[WinMM]
>; Uncomment the "Drivers" line matching your sound setting.
>
>;"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"      ; default for most common configurations
>"Drivers" = "winearts.drv"    ; for KDE
>;"Drivers" = "winealsa.drv"    ; for ALSA users
>;"Drivers" = "winejack.drv"    ; for Jack sound server
>;"Drivers" = "winenas.drv"     ; for NAS sound system
>;"Drivers" = "wineaudioio.drv" ; for Solaris machines
>;"Drivers" = ""                ; to disable sound
>"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
>"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"
>---
>
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Henk,

I tried the Arts drivers in wine. Music worked OK with some games, not 
others. Sound effects didn't work at all. I also tried Wine's ALSA 
support. Some sounds worked, but with a long delay between the action 
and the sound. Wine seems to have better OSS support than Arts or ALSA. 
ALSA's drivers for the Intel8x0 seem to have very poor OSS support.

Thanks,
Rick Knight
(rick at rlknight.com)