[Bug 10116] New: A warning should be shown if a sound subsystem cannot be open

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10116

Summary: A warning should be shown if a sound subsystem cannot be
                    open
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS/GIT
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-multimedia
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

There are some sound/music applications which do not have any exception
handling for a situation when a sound cannot be routed/output.

So, if your sound system is busy (some cheap AC97/HDA ALSA audio and no
hardware mixing) and you try to run such an application it can die with some
strange error when trying to play any sound, e.g.:

Backtrace:
=>1 0x00000000 (0x0033ff08)
  2 0x7ee4f9ab in kernel32 (+0x4f9ab) (0x0033ffe8)
  3 0xb7e94707 wine_switch_to_stack+0x17() in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
0x00000000: addb        %al,0x0(%eax)

To give a user a hint, it will be sufficient to MsgBox("Sound system is busy.
Expect an application failure.");

[Bug 10116] A warning should be shown if a sound subsystem cannot be open

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10116

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-10-20 10:40:32 ---
Turn on warn channel you will get your warning.

[Bug 10116] A warning should be shown if a sound subsystem cannot be open

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10116

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|major                       |enhancement
             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #2 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-10-20 10:40:47 ---
Closing

[Bug 10116] A warning should be shown if a sound subsystem cannot be open

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10116

--- Comment #3 from Artem S. Tashkinov   2007-10-20 10:55:57 ---
1) It's not normal for an average not techie Linux user to turn on warning and
like

2) It's not normal for applications to _crash_ when sound subsystem is busy

If you still think it's OK then leave this bug closed. I'm plain disappointed.

[Bug 10116] A warning should be shown if a sound subsystem cannot be open

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10116

James Hawkins  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|_obsolete_multimedia        |-unknown

[Bug 10116] A warning should be shown if a sound subsystem cannot be open

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10116

Dan Kegel  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Version|CVS/GIT                     |unspecified