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Peri Simone
Black Rebel Rifter Club
The Devil's Tattoo
#1 - 2012-05-25 11:26:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Peri Simone
Hi all, I've always had a minor problem with sound regularly cutting out, which I've previously been able to fix quite easily by running the in-game Echo Test, but this no longer seems to make a difference.

Ubuntu 10.04, WINE 1.4

Any ideas?
Godfrey Silvarna
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#2 - 2012-05-25 12:22:43 UTC
None. I have given up on sound for now. The few times I managed to keep sound working in game it would die the moment I fired up Mumble or TeamSpeak, and voice comms are so much more important than LAZORS going PEW PEW PEW that eve's sounds got to go.
Xin Chang
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-05-25 22:39:08 UTC
I find that EVE sound works better *without* pulseaudio.

The command "pulseaudio -k" will kill the pulseaudio daemon

It's possible that other things will stop working if you don't also futz around with other configurations. It's also psosible that pulseaudio won't really die, because something is out there making sure it runs. You'll have to find that and disable it.

I have the following in ~/.asoundrc, which enables the ALSA dmixxer (alowing things to share audio output without pulseaudio). Then I just configure everything to use ALSA. In general, I find things work better for this. It also, for me, solved the "sound just cutting out" problem with EVE.

My .asoundrc file enabling dmix


If you need pulseaudio for something, run it with "pulseaudio -D", and when you're done, kill it with "pulseaudio -k".
Peri Simone
Black Rebel Rifter Club
The Devil's Tattoo
#4 - 2012-05-26 00:09:44 UTC
Godfrey, if there's anything in the world more important than LAZORS going PEW PEW PEW, I don't want to know about it.

Xin, many thanks, that's excellent. I'll give it a try and let you know how I get on. Much appreciated.
After Shok
Ruthenia Co
#5 - 2012-05-26 09:07:08 UTC
I find wine fork - wine + pulseaudio driver - http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/multimedia.git
And build for Fredora 16 - work fine ))

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Katrina Bekers
A Blessed Bean
Pandemic Horde
#6 - 2012-05-29 09:59:50 UTC
Also, try a newer WINE.

1.5.5 was published last week.

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Buzzy Warstl
Quantum Flux Foundry
#7 - 2012-05-29 13:17:22 UTC
Every time I have sound problems on a linux box I uninstall pulseaudio and the problems go away.

This makes me really wonder what the people who maintain it and put it into various distributions are smoking.

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Peri Simone
Black Rebel Rifter Club
The Devil's Tattoo
#8 - 2012-05-31 01:07:08 UTC
Killing pulseaudio before starting an Eve session seems to be doing the job, and hasn't had any noticeable negative effect on anything else. I've got a feeling I mucked about with ALSA at some point in the past, but I'm afraid I can't really tell you how I've got sound configured now.

Anyway, it works, so I'm happy. Thanks again.
Jonathan Ambrash
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-06-01 13:47:52 UTC
I don't mean to hijack this post, but I do also have issues with the sound using wine-1.5.5 on Linux Mint 13.
At first I had no sound at all in any programs running in wine. After googling a bit, I read that settings the DLL "mmdevapi" in winecfg to "disabled" should help - and indeed it did!

Now I have sound in Eve, but as soon as I hove the mouse above something in the UI which interacts with the mouse hover, e. g. the title of a tab (which then is highlighted), the sound starts to crackle. The sound also starts cracking very badly if I click into the chat window so that the cursor starts blinking.

If I don't do anything the sound plays almost perfectly.

Things I already tried:
- Adding "pulseaudio -k" in my script I use to start Eve -> no change
- Settings "sound" to all other drivers other than "alsa" using winetricks -> everything else then "alsa" results in no sound at all
- Setting "dsoundhw" to all possible values using winetricks: Basic, Standard, Emulation, Full -> no change
- Settings windows-version to XP, Vista, 7 using winetricks -> no change
- Setting "default-fragment-size-msec" in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf from value "10" to value "5" and restarting pulseaudio -> no change

Does anyone know this sort of problem and have some hints?
Peri Simone
Black Rebel Rifter Club
The Devil's Tattoo
#10 - 2012-06-19 10:36:55 UTC
Hey Jonathan, I'm afraid I can't help with your issue, but *bump* for that.

I'm now having a new problem after switching to Ubuntu 12.04. This seemed to take me back to square one with my original sound cutting out issue, so I replaced pulseaudio with alsa using solution 2 here.

Sound in Eve is now stable, but Mangler (the Vent alternative) is repeatedly crashing (connection lost, box greys out).

Any help would be appreciated.

Ubuntu 12.04, Wine 1.5.6, Mangler 1.2.2.
Derglas Servekti
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-06-21 04:23:34 UTC
Jonathan Ambrash wrote:
- Adding "pulseaudio -k" in my script I use to start Eve -> no change


Make sure that pulseaudio is really dead. Recent version of Ubuntu (at least) have pulseaudio set up to auto-respawn when they stop. Run the follwoing:

ps ax | grep -i pulse

in a shell after Eve starts to make sure that pulseaudio has really died.

If it's not dying, then you can create a file "~/.pulse/client.conf" with the line "autospawn = no" to make it stay dead when you kill it.