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Goodbye Pulseaudio (ALSA, WINE, Ubuntu 8.04)

  • 12-05-2008 9:37pm
    #1
    runswithascript
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    Pulseaudio is supposed provide the functionality of individually adjusting the volume of simultaneously running applications as opposed to having to change the master ALSA volume for all of them at once. Unfortunately there are some issues.

    I couldn't use Flash and another sound using application at the same time so I installed the libflashsupport fix which helped but even with that fix all of my programs are prone to having no sound at all and some crash as a result of this even when nothing else is contending the sound driver.

    Bear in mind the sound works most of the time when I run WINE alone but when I'm multitasking it's a different story. I read online Pulseaudio are aware of issues with WINE (amongst other programs) before speaking with the developers from each camp who seem to have a bit of bad blood between them.

    Pulseaudio claimed the coding assumptions WINE uses are incorrect, it doesn't require the sound access it currently requests and that their developer team has air of superiority about them whenever these issues arise. Correspondingly WINE told me that said assumptions are within the ALSA interface standard which is not defined by Pulseaudio, they need the sound access for performance reasons and they will never adjust their software to work with Pulseaudio as long as it remains inoperable anyway (crashing for various reasons including receiving assumptions that it doesn't understand or are incorrect).

    Must I disable Pulseaudio to have sound working in all my applications when others are in the background and must this come at the price of not being able to adjust their volume individually? Is there a fix you know of?

    As per the Ubuntu guide on disabling Pulseaudio I selected ALSA in all the dropdown boxes in system > prefs > and when that didn't work I disabled PulseAudio Session Management in system > prefs > sessions > startup programs only to find that after a restart ps aux | grep pulse is still returning: pulseaudio --log-target=syslog and pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper which means I wasn't surprised when I confirmed I still have the problem.

    Thoughts, comments and suggestions are welcome.


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