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

[drew Roberts]

On Friday 10 July 2009 15:03:14 Ken Restivo 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:
>
> 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,

I don't know enough to really speak to this, but I can play wine stuff through 
jack.

>
> -ken

all the best,

drew