Sound output bypasses pulseaudio Alsa plugin on 64 bit host.

[Neil Wilson]

Binary package hint: wine1.2

Sound in the latest version appears to bypass Pulseaudio's Alsa plugin completely - so much so that if you're, say, playing music via Rhythmbox then you can't run the 'test sound' function within Wine configure.

Running up 'Spotify' then fails.

Similarly if Wine has the Alsa layer, then all the pulseaudio audio output fails.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: fff1b48640eeda6e5016227e703115de
CheckboxSystem: 08f17885f317464241752fbe5a8cd730
Date: Sun Sep 13 12:26:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: wine1.2 1.1.28-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SourcePackage: wine1.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

[Neil Wilson (neil-aldur)]

Also affects Adobe Flash 10 plugin as well. Sound via that stops sound via anything else. no good if your softphone rings...

[Neil Wilson (neil-aldur)]

Sep 13 19:24:58 binky pulseaudio[5869]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy

[Neil Wilson (neil-aldur)]

Note from Daniel Chen

'The "32-bit Wine on 64-bit host" issue is due to
libasound_module_conf_pulse.so not being shipped in ia32-libs or
lib32asound2-plugins.

In the short
term (Karmic), ia32-libs needs to stop Depending on
lib32asound2-plugins and just ship libasound2-plugins as it used to.'

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/408615/comments/33