Alsa sound vs OSS with wine and riven

Alsa sound vs OSS with wine and riven

[Stephen Clark]

Hello,

I have been working to get "Riven" the sequel to Myst to work with the 
latest wine from
cvs on the latest FC5. It works and the sound is almost perfect with 
OSS, but is totally
screwed up when I use ALSA, I don't know whether this is a WINE or Linux 
issue, so I
am cross posting to both lists.

Regards,
Steve

-- 

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, 
deserve neither liberty nor safety."  (Ben Franklin)

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty 
decreases."  (Thomas Jefferson)

Re: Alsa sound vs OSS with wine and riven

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 15:50 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been working to get "Riven" the sequel to Myst to work with
> the 
> latest wine from cvs on the latest FC5. It works and the sound is
> almost perfect with 
> OSS, but is totally screwed up when I use ALSA, I don't know whether
> this is a WINE or Linux 
> issue, so I am cross posting to both lists.

Does it work with ALSA's OSS emulation?

Lee

Re: Alsa sound vs OSS with wine and riven

[Christian Trefzer]

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On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 03:50:46PM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
> I have been working to get "Riven" the sequel to Myst to work with the
> latest wine from cvs on the latest FC5. It works and the sound is
> almost perfect with OSS, but is totally screwed up when I use ALSA, I
> don't know whether this is a WINE or Linux issue, so I am cross
> posting to both lists.

I had the same experience even with a little lower requirements wrt.
CPU performance - music player daemon (mpd) tends to eat a lot more
cycles when it is configured to use alsa style devices, but is pretty
low-impact when it talks to the OSS emulation provided by the very same
alsa drivers.

With wine and starcraft on my not-so-recent yet well maintained laptop
the difference in results was ultimate.

By the way, I still have to apply some scheduler tricks, makes me wonder
about wine's development during the past few years. I used to play
starcraft through wine on an ancient Pentium, and now a Mobile Pentium
III is almost choking on it. I wonder what is going on...

Kind regards,
Chris

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Re: Alsa sound vs OSS with wine and riven

[Stephen Clark]

Lee Revell wrote:

>On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 15:50 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have been working to get "Riven" the sequel to Myst to work with
>>the 
>>latest wine from cvs on the latest FC5. It works and the sound is
>>almost perfect with 
>>OSS, but is totally screwed up when I use ALSA, I don't know whether
>>this is a WINE or Linux 
>>issue, so I am cross posting to both lists.
>>    
>>
>
>Does it work with ALSA's OSS emulation?
>
>Lee
>
>
>  
>
Actually looking at the .config file it looks like it is using OSS 
emulation - not real OSS.

Steve

-- 

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, 
deserve neither liberty nor safety."  (Ben Franklin)

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty 
decreases."  (Thomas Jefferson)

Re: Alsa sound vs OSS with wine and riven

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:57 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 15:50 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I have been working to get "Riven" the sequel to Myst to work with
> >>the 
> >>latest wine from cvs on the latest FC5. It works and the sound is
> >>almost perfect with 
> >>OSS, but is totally screwed up when I use ALSA, I don't know whether
> >>this is a WINE or Linux 
> >>issue, so I am cross posting to both lists.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Does it work with ALSA's OSS emulation?
> >
> >Lee
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Actually looking at the .config file it looks like it is using OSS 
> emulation - not real OSS.

Then it's a bug in Wine's ALSA driver.

Lee