[Wine] Re: Strange sound problems on Hardy

[vitamin]

powered_by_tux wrote:
> I am having a strange sound issue that affects all apps on Wine. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and have a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit. Wine version 1.0rc3 is configured to use the ALSA driver.
> 
> DirectSound hardware acceleration has been enabled a long time before using Hardy and has never caused any problems until now. Regularly the sound of a game/application completely drops until the application is restarted. Temporarily disabling PulseAudio does not solve the problem.
> 
> To workaround this problem I have set sound hardware acceleration to "Emulation". Audio will then continue to play, however it occasionally runs faster than it should until it "catches up".
> 
> Is this a known problem. Should this be reported as a bug? Many thanks for your responses.


Because your distro using pulseaudio - which is not compatible with most OSS/ALSA programs. Kill/disable/remove it. Then Wine will work again.