[linux-audio-user] Re: Update on savihost + Vsti's under wine

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/11/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 07:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On 11/10/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 17:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > >   Maybe you can check this out on your end. Run 'winecfg' and change
> > > > the audio driver from the default OSS driver to the Alsa driver. Exit
> > > > winecfg and now run Crystal using Savihost. On my end it no longer
> > > > uses 100% CPU.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Wine should be using ALSA by default - same as all the major distros and
> > > all new Linux audio apps.  Can you report this as a bug to the Wine
> > > developers?
> > >
> > > Lee
> >
> > Lee,
> >    One reasonable bit of feedback on the idea of Wine using the Alsa
> > driver as default is that (they contend) Alsa doesn't have a default
> > mixer where as OSS does. One individual considered this very
> > important. I don't actually know if it's true, but I think it is.
>
> That's not what he is saying, I think he means that they just haven't
> had time to implement ALSA mixer API support in Wine.
>
> Lee
>
Oh, OK. Thanks.