[SOLVED] PulseAudio, Skype and Wine

Xaero252 · 2012-07-20 22:38:58

Okay, I have the Skype 64-bit package installed on a fully up-to-date fresh install of Arch running KDE4 (which I'm starting to like) and PulseAudio. Pulse is properly configured to pipe all of my audio output through my Optical output which runs to a DAC. Everything on the Pulse side seems fine, right? Wrong. When I fire up a game in Wine (WoW for example) and then call somebody using Skype, I only get Skype's audio, not the games. The game goes completely silent. No Skype? Game audio works fine. This is an issue because I need to be able to hear the game, and talk on Skype simultaneously. I have commented out the Audio Cork and the flatline modules in the pulse config as suggested by the wiki, but the issue still occurs. I am also now starting my games via `padsp wine foo`
Am I missing something obvious?

Also relevent information:

lspci | grep audio:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
03:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
05:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

lsusb | grep microphone:

Bus 010 Device 003: ID 17a0:0002 Samson Technologies Corp. Q1U dynamic microphone

/etc/pulse/default.pa:

#!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF
#
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
# Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

# This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user
# (i.e. not in system mode)

.nofail

### Load something into the sample cache
#load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav
#load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
#load-sample-lazy pulse-coldplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
#load-sample-lazy pulse-access /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav

.fail

### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore

### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files
### stored in /usr/share/application
load-module module-augment-properties

### Load audio drivers statically
### (it's probably better to not load these drivers manually, but instead
### use module-udev-detect -- see below -- for doing this automatically)
#load-module module-alsa-sink
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
#load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-null-sink
#load-module module-pipe-sink

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev/hal support)
load-module module-detect
.endif

### Automatically connect sink and source if JACK server is present
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect
.fail
.endif

### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif

### Load several protocols
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix

### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
### here if you plan to use paprefs)
#load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-zeroconf-publish

### Load the RTP receiver module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-rtp-recv

### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 sink_properties="device.description='RTP Multicast Sink'"
#load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor

### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool.
### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually
### loaded modules.
.ifexists module-gconf.so
.nofail
load-module module-gconf
.fail
.endif

### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user
### during runtime
### NOTE: This should be loaded as early as possible so that subsequent modules
### that look up the default sink/source get the right value
load-module module-default-device-restore

### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are
### connected to dies, similar for sources
load-module module-rescue-streams

### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
load-module module-always-sink

### Honour intended role device property
load-module module-intended-roles

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle

### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
### when no local session needs us anymore.
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
.nofail
load-module module-console-kit
.fail
.endif
.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
load-module module-systemd-login
.endif

### Enable positioned event sounds
load-module module-position-event-sounds

### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active
#load-module module-role-cork

### Modules to allow autoloading of filters (such as echo cancellation)
### on demand. module-filter-heuristics tries to determine what filters
### make sense, and module-filter-apply does the heavy-lifting of
### loading modules and rerouting streams.
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply

### Load DBus protocol
.ifexists module-dbus-protocol.so
load-module module-dbus-protocol
.endif

# X11 modules should not be started from default.pa so that one daemon
# can be shared by multiple sessions.

### Load X11 bell module
#load-module module-x11-bell sample=bell-windowing-system

### Register ourselves in the X11 session manager
#load-module module-x11-xsmp

### Publish connection data in the X11 root window
#.ifexists module-x11-publish.so
#.nofail
#load-module module-x11-publish
#.fail
#.endif

load-module module-switch-on-port-available

### Make some devices default
#set-default-sink output
#set-default-source input

Last edited by Xaero252 (2012-07-21 00:59:45)

R00KIE · 2012-07-20 23:26:23

There was a thread about something very similar not too long ago if memory serves me right, try searching the forum.

Xaero252 · 2012-07-20 23:52:01

R00KIE wrote:

There was a thread about something very similar not too long ago if memory serves me right, try searching the forum.

Silly me, I overlooked one of the threads. Wine was just using alsa (not pulse via the alsa plugin)
Between installing pulseaudio-alsa and updating my ~/.asoundrc audio is now working in games simultaneously with Skype.

~/.asoundrc:

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

Teach me to not read a seemingly unrelated thread...

R00KIE · 2012-07-21 00:28:02

Your ~/.asoundrc basically does the same as the system wide /etc/asound.conf and matches what pulseaudio-alsa used to install before, so you can probably use the system wide config if you don't have anything else in your ~/.asoundrc

maxbld · 2012-12-15 11:38:41

Hi all,

I've exact same issue, but setting ~/.asoundrc the way you do doesn't help. Any idea why?

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#1 2012-07-20 22:38:58

[SOLVED] PulseAudio, Skype and Wine

#2 2012-07-20 23:26:23

Re: [SOLVED] PulseAudio, Skype and Wine

#3 2012-07-20 23:52:01

Re: [SOLVED] PulseAudio, Skype and Wine

#4 2012-07-21 00:28:02

Re: [SOLVED] PulseAudio, Skype and Wine

#5 2012-12-15 11:38:41

Re: [SOLVED] PulseAudio, Skype and Wine

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