[LAU] Wine + Firefox + Flash == No Audio with ALSA

[Justin Smith]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Justin Smith<noisesmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Ken Restivo<ken at restivo.org> wrote:
>> I've successfully gotten Firefox to run on Wine with Adobe Flash (presumably so that I can actually see people's websites, and listen to their music. Sheesh.). This is on a 32-bit system.
>>
>> But no sound. WineCfg seems to think that the only drivers available are dmix, but I don't have dmix configured, or running, and I do NOT want dmix at all!
>>
>> http://portaserver.restivo.org/kens/dmix0.png
>>
>> I use this system for JACK audio, so I don't want crap mixing happening in ALSA adding latency. I'm fine with shutting down JACK in order to surf on Windoze, for those times when I actually need it. I do NOT want to have to run a soundserver like ESD, which is what a lot of the advice on Das Internets seems to say to do.
>>
>> So I want Wine/Firefox to just use the direct access to the ALSA card.
>>
>> My .asoundrc is empty, which is kind of how I like it.
>>
>> In Googling around, I found advice to add this to my .asoundrc:
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>> pcm.dmix0 {      type plug      slave.pcm "hw:0,0" }
>>
>> Seems like it'd be a neat way to force Wine to do what I want, without having to do what it wants. I tried it, though, and nothing.
>>
>> -ken
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>
> Have you tried wineasio? This has worked for me (with reaper and
> audiomulch). I don't see why it wouldn't work with firefox/flash.
> http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=ASIO_with_Wineasio
>

Meant to add, wineasio lets wine apps use jack.