[Bug 39849] New: winepulse.drv is used while winealsa.drv is selected

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39849

Bug ID: 39849
           Summary: winepulse.drv is used while winealsa.drv is selected
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.8
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

In winecfg -> Audio the driver shown there as selected is winealsa.drv but on
starting applications I'm often seeing the line "err:module:load_builtin_dll
failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winepulse.drv": libpulse.so.0: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory". libpulse0:i386 is not installed
on my system and installing it would cause the error message to be replaced
with "err:pulse:pulse_contextcallback Context failed: Connection refused". I
think if PulseAudio is not used by the system for example because only ALSA is
being used Wine should not try to use PulseAudio then.

[Bug 39849] winepulse.drv is used while winealsa.drv is selected

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39849

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[Bug 39849] winepulse.drv is used while winealsa.drv is selected

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39849

--- Comment #1 from Andrew Eikum  ---
Do you have the "Audio" driver setting set in your registry? If not, then we
need to probe each type of audio driver to determine which is available. For
winepulse, we try to load libpulse in order to contact the PA server.

If you really want to avoid this (why?), then you can set the Audio driver
setting to "alsa", which will skip probing all of the available drivers. See
http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys.

[Bug 39849] winepulse.drv is used while winealsa.drv is selected

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39849

--- Comment #2 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to Andrew Eikum from comment #1)
> Do you have the "Audio" driver setting set in your registry?

No, the key doesn't exist.

(In reply to Andrew Eikum from comment #1)
> If not, then we
> need to probe each type of audio driver to determine which is available. For
> winepulse, we try to load libpulse in order to contact the PA server.

Sounds plausible but if this probing is a normal behavior I would not expect to
see an error if Wine finds out that a specific audio driver can't be used
(except maybe if all probes are failing).

[Bug 39849] winepulse.drv is used while winealsa.drv is selected

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39849

--- Comment #3 from Andrew Eikum  ---
(In reply to sworddragon2 from comment #0)
> libpulse0:i386 is not installed on my system and
> installing it would cause the error message to be replaced with
> "err:pulse:pulse_contextcallback Context failed: Connection refused".

This error should no longer be printed. However the failure to load
libpulse.so.0 will still be printed. We'd have to load the library dynamically,
and I'm not sure it's worth that much effort to avoid printing the message.

commit 87754283becca7aef8f90af1d584d47ad25d8324
Author: Andrew Eikum 
Date:   Mon Jul 25 13:00:14 2016 -0500

winepulse.drv: Downgrade failed server connection message to WARN.

[Bug 39849] winepulse.drv is used while winealsa.drv is selected

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39849

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--- Comment #4 from joaopa  ---
Does the bug still occur with wine-6.5?