[Solved] wine sound not working (pulseaudio) / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums

Is there a way to make this work under pulse audio however?  I do not see the streams in pavucontrol

Yes, as I mentioned earlier, there are a few pulse enabled packages floating around.

You should see the streams in pavucontrol though, I see my wine streams. Be sure you have the right stuff installed like pulseaudio-alsa package and pulse is configured correctly. That said..

If you really want pulse drivers, long story, to my understanding.. it's a bit of a mess:* The earliest pulse support was a set of patches referred to as "winepulse", http://art.ified.ca/?page_id=40  from here. A winepulse package was posted to AUR at some point, but was removed when it was obsoleted some time around wine 1.3.22.* When wine's multimedia system was overhauled (rendering the above obsolete), a wine-multimedia git repo came into being http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/multimedia.git with a pulse alternative based on the new system. It reverts a bunch of changes in directsound n mmdevapi to do this by making its own changes. This git repo is usually a few versions behind the official vanilla wine release. Presently, it is at 1.3.36.* Nephyrin from our community made packages for wine-multimedia-git and wine-multimedia and put patches n stuff together and posted that to AUR, and kept them up to date until wine 1.3.29. At some point after this, the wine-multimedia git itself stopped showing updates, so we all had to wait a while. Around when wine 1.4rc1 was released, the git was updated to 1.3.6.* .. I tweaked my own patched wine pkgbuild + nephyrin's pkgbuild to try to get the now released git stuff for wine-multimedia 1.3.6 to work. I had no luck. It compiles, but I get no sound. However, another guy http://debian.orson.at/list_repository/ … perimental had posted debian packages for wine-pulse 1.3.34 or 35 or some such via packages from the wine-multimedia git. I managed to make it work for wine 1.3.36 and posted it and information https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51884 in one of my latest posts here.

So, in a nutshell, some debian guy put together a bunch of wine-multimedia git patches meant for an older wine and made it work with 1.3.35 for debian. I grabbed his sources and turned that to a package for 1.3.36 here. Not long after, wine-multimedia git itself came out with proper 1.3.36 stuff that we *should* use but nobody seems to have been able to make work here (or at least isn't saying anything).

So, your choices if you want pulse support:

* I could send you a super old winepulse package (1.3.18 I think) if you wanted for some reason* Wine-multimedia with old wine 1.3.29 in AUR* My slightly newer but hackish/improper 1.3.36 package posted to the above aur page* Wait and see if somebody works out how to make an up to date wine-multimedia 1.3.36 package that actually works* Wait and see if somebody updates the 1.4rc2 (or newer) packages in a less correct manner like I did with 1.3.36.. I actually already have a package for this, it just doesn't seem to work.

In ANY case you choose, I will once again tell you that the pulse enabled packages tend to cause as many problems as they fix, and lots of stuff has no sound that works fine in vanilla wine.

TL;DR: You have several choices for a pulse enabled package, all of them suck to a degree and none are exactly official. Wine-multimedia or one of my packages posted to said AUR page are what you're looking for if you really want to do it anyway. You're really better off with vanilla wine + alsa. If you don't see streams in pavucontrol, be sure you have pulseaudio-alsa installed and pulseaudio configured properly; wine streams show up fine for me with the alsa driver.

Last edited by FrozenFox (2012-02-11 17:38:49)