I really dont know how stable/usable it is just yet but the new alsa-1.09* does now include software mixing
I tried 1.09-rc3 and had a few oddities so I decided to wait , it is now at 1.09a, may be worth a look if you sticking point revolves around missing mixers.
Regards.
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:57:50 +0200, René Rebe rene@exactcode.de wrote:
Hi,
On Monday 06 June 2005 09:34, Andreas Mohr wrote:
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:49:50AM +0200, René Rebe wrote:
Are there some holes in some kind of mixer interface implementation?
Is
there some kind of tracing I can enable in order to take a look what
kind
of call did fail?
Probably (despite Robert Reif and others having done a lot of good work there). Try WINEDEBUG=+driver,+winmm,+mmio,+mmsys,+sound,+mmtime,+mciwave,+msacm,+wavem ap,+wave,+midi,+mixer,+mmaux,+dscapture,+dsound,+dsound3d (whoa, that's about 3 times longer than expected! ;)
Oh - thanks. I already tried WINEDEBUG and wondered that I got no output and just realized that my wine was compiled with --disable-debug ... ,-)
So with a rebuild wine the most obvious hint in the log is:
warn:mixer:MIX_Open The sound card doesn't support rec level
Hm ... - might be the ALSA OSS emulation ... this is most probably what ViaVoice is missing. However I just noticed the error message is different when I use OSS instead of ALSA. With OSS ViaVoice complains:
"Can not use Audiomixer for sound playback"
while with ALSA it complains:
"No active mixers"
Is it possible that ViaVoice does want to use some Windows Mixer program to playback sound? The alsa backend seems to have some more problems: ALSA lib control.c:739:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL plug:hw:0 ALSA lib control.c:739:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL plug:hw:1
Which I think happens since ALSA returns an infinite amount of channels and such for the plug:hw:* and wine does use one of thoe values to setup the card. When I patch it to use hw.* I can playback audio from Wine and do not get the above errors.
Yours,