[Wine] current state of Ubuntu Sound -- my experience

[Andrew Fenn]

Do you use OSSv4? and if so what are your experiences with it so far?
I've heard that it's much better then pulse audio.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have Ubuntu Studio Karmic with the real-time kernel.
> I run Dragon NaturallySpeaking through wine, so I am most concerned with clear, low-latency, incoming ("recording") sound.
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> I have edited /etc/alsa/client.conf to stop pulseaudio from re-spawning, and killall pulseaudio after I log on.
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> Under winecfg:
> If I select OSS the results are pretty good. It works. Sound quality seems a bit worse than under ALSA (which used to work, pre-pulseaudio) but it's not bad.
> If I select ALSA, the results are not good. No mixer shows up unless I install esound (which uninstalls pulseaudio-esound-compat and ubuntu-studio-desktop).
> Then a mixer shows up and my program shows an audio system present, but freezes at the first incoming sound.
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> Sometimes after an update sound does not work.
> Updates do not take kindly to tinkering.
> This could be because of something to do with esound, it could be because I tried to update without ubuntu-studio-desktop, or it could be because I set the default soundcard using asoundconf.
> As you probably know, Ubuntu has dropped asoundconf from Karmic, and I use the one from Jaunty. (I put it under /usr/local/bin.)
> To make sound work again, I must re-install the settings from pulseaudio, which I do as follows:
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> sudo apt-get --purge remove pulseaudio
> sudo apt-get install pulseaudio (and, if you want, all the other programs that the above command uses; not all of them are re-installed)
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> Then it works.
> This could be useful in case you sound suddenly goes out after an update, as mine does.
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> As I said, I'm just documenting this as my experience. Comments? Anyone else need really good incoming sound?
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