No sound in wine under amd_64

Can Wine's alsa drivers work without wrapping them in pulseaudio? There has been some upstream complaints about pulseaudio's ALSA wrapper not having low enough latency for Wine's needs.

Can libpulsedsp.so be added to the ia32-libs package? Copying the file from a 32bit package into /usr/lib32 works for me too.

there could do with being a padsp for 32 bit as well to wrap it properly.

padsp is just an arch-independent shell script that sets some variables and LD_PRELOADs libpulsedsp.so.
fyi, libpulse.so.0 and related libraries are in ia32-libs already.

I can't reproduce this on Hardy amd64 - sound seems to work just fine in Wine for me. I'm using ALSA.

(to Scott:) Did you upgrade from Gutsy? Hardy uses pulseaudio by default, but during upgrade it wasn't always automatically enabled for each user; one needs to go to the sound settings and enable 'Enable software sound mixing (ESD)'. When pulseaudio isn't playing audio, it may release the audio device so ALSA applications can grab it. But if you're playing music or have a Youtube movie opened in Firefox for example, wine's ALSA module won't be able to open the device since it's in use by pulseaudio. The solution is then to use OSS in wine with padsp. In short:
- make sure pulseaudio is active
- play something using totem/rhythmbox/whatever
- output audio in wine (it'll fail unless OSS is used with padsp)
solution:
* install 32bit libpulsedsp.so in /usr/lib32
* run `padsp winecfg` and select OSS output (check that wave in&out have a pulseaudio device)
* run your wine sound application using `padsp wine mysoundapp.exe`

Yeah, I did upgrade from Gutsy. At least it works when nothing else is playing sound.

I guess we should add pulseaudio-utils to ia32-libs package list then. http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/pulseaudio-utils/filelist

This bug was fixed in the package ia32-libs - 2.2ubuntu8

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ia32-libs (2.2ubuntu8) hardy; urgency=low

  * Freshen packages.
  * Remove libldap2, add libldap-2.4-2.
  * Add librsvg2-2, librsvg2-common, libgsf-1-114, libcroco3. Partial #162993.
  * Add pulseaudio-utils. LP: #210572.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:41:07 +0000

Isn't this a dupe of #182731 which would be a better, more transparent and more general solution?
(Letting wine use 32-bit alsa plugin /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so)

Fixed in last update, thanks!
Addition of alsa modules would be good (no padsp needed), but I still think there is a place for padsp in case of 32bit oss applications. (and currently wine's oss module has better midi device naming than alsa, but that's an issue that should be solved in wine's alsa module)