1 Topic by garvalf (edited by garvalf 2015-08-22 20:01:42)

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Topic: help with Beepola on Linux (wine, pulseaudio)

Hello,

I wanted to use Beepola on my main linux box with the wine "emulator", but it behaves rather strange, first it sounds ok for 3 seconds, then the sound is distorded, like it's in a vacuum, with slowdown and noise. It's because of the pulseaudio sh*t: on another computer, as soon as I killed the pulseaudio task, I got a good, clean sound.

Now, on those computers, even with pulseaudio, sounds in games are ok though. Maybe beepola is more CPU intensive, I don't know.

Both computers are using the same distribution, Linux Mint. Yet, on the first one when I kill pulseaudio I still get (better) sounds, but on the other, when I kill pulseaudio, then it no longer produce any sounds sad

Any idea?

I cannot completely get rid of pulseaudio, this sh*t is so much intricated into the linux ecosystem, that many applications won't work properly if it's disabled sad

Btw, talking about beepola, I found this thread with astonishing tunes by FrankT:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/d … -wip-tunes

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Re: help with Beepola on Linux (wine, pulseaudio)

According to http://wiki.winehq.org/Sound, wine supports pulseaudio only through its ALSA emulation layer. Do you have PulseAudio >= 1.0 and alsa-plugins >= 1.0.25? Also, it's possible that you have the active ALSA device set to one that doesn't support mixing and some other program claimed it first after you stopped pulseaudio.

My condolences on having to use pulseaudio. I've managed to avoid it for the most part. There was a short time when I installed it to use skype, but then someone wrote apulse, which emulates pulseaudio and passes it to ALSA. apulse may be worth a try too, but it was written specifically for skype and probably doesn't work for all applications.

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Re: help with Beepola on Linux (wine, pulseaudio)

yes, I have all of this. Anyway, thanks for your advices about mixing. While looking for alsa-plugins I found a useful tool called "paman", which can help for monitoring and killing individual pulseaudio elements. While I was using beepola through wine, I discover some elements appearing and disappearing quickly. I killed the main alsa element, so the other could work properly. I can also kill pulseaudio from there and start it again, and I still get the sound in beepola, so it's great smile

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Re: help with Beepola on Linux (wine, pulseaudio)

garvalf wrote:

Hello,
Btw, talking about beepola, I found this thread with astonishing tunes by FrankT:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/d … -wip-tunes


Wow !

I see what you mean, some amazing SID-like beeper tunes from FrankT there.

Darklight & Super70s in particular. The AY stuff is amazing too smile

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