Comment 369 for bug 371897

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In , Sorceror (shacklein) wrote :

(In reply to comment #263)
> (In reply to comment #250)
> > My point of view is quite simple: I want wine to work with audio without
> > resorting to uninstalling (or even suspending) PulseAudio. I don't care how
> > it's done, if it's by integrating the Pulse driver, by improving either the
> > Alsa or OSS driver so using them in a Pulse-enabled system is as good as using
> > Art Taylor's patch, or by doing an OpenAL driver; I just care that an answer is
> > found, it's done sooner rather than later, and the user experience is at least
> > as good as using Art Taylor's patch.
> >
>
> The answer is quite simple , use a hardware mixing sound card

Not an acceptable option for laptop users.

> You cannot expect alsa or oss can make those non hardware mixing sound card in
> par with those hardware mixing sound cards

Nor can you reasonably expect pulse to perform as well as ALSA, but that's another story.

For what it's worth, I've heard pulse performs tolerably if audio Hardware Acceleration is set to Emulation in winecfg, or if padsp and OSS driver are used.