On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:56:46 -0500, Robert Reif wrote:
If usability rather than performance (as in multiple applications) is important, then higher level drivers like jack or arts should be used.
Apart from JACK which is used in pro-audio situations, sound servers are probably going to be phased out on Linux within the next 12-24 months as people migrate to the 2.6 kernel with ALSA and the dmix/asym plugins.
So, I still think the best way to solve this problem is simply to have a winecfg check box that says "Use hardware accelerated audio" which people who desire better performance can tick: they incur extra CPU overhead and the benefit is that they can use all their apps together. For many uses of Wine audio support is simply required for the bling!bling! sounds programs sometimes make.
This is probably easier on the user than asking them to change their backend Wine audio driver.
thanks -mike