[Solved] Crackling sound in Wine

PhotonX · 2013-06-23 09:01:54

Hi community,

I'm having some trouble with Wine's sound output. In all Wine applications (including winecfg) I get crackling sound and many of these lines:

ALSA lib pcm.c:7832:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

All non-Wine applications work fine. I know that the problem appeared some time ago, but since I didn't use Wine for a pretty long time, I cannot tell exactly when it appeared. Currently the latest version from multilib/ is installed (1.6rc3-1). Here is the list of opt deps (installed ones are marked as such):

Optional Deps  : giflib [installed]
                 lib32-giflib
                 libpng [installed]
                 lib32-libpng [installed]
                 libldap [installed]
                 lib32-libldap [installed]
                 gnutls [installed]
                 lib32-gnutls
                 lcms [installed]
                 lib32-lcms
                 libxml2 [installed]
                 lib32-libxml2
                 mpg123 [installed]
                 lib32-mpg123 [installed]
                 openal [installed]
                 lib32-openal [installed]
                 v4l-utils [installed]
                 lib32-v4l-utils [installed]
                 libpulse [installed]
                 lib32-libpulse [installed]
                 alsa-plugins [installed]
                 lib32-alsa-plugins [installed]
                 alsa-lib [installed]
                 lib32-alsa-lib [installed]
                 libjpeg-turbo [installed]
                 lib32-libjpeg-turbo [installed]
                 libxcomposite [installed]
                 lib32-libxcomposite [installed]
                 libxinerama [installed]
                 lib32-libxinerama [installed]
                 ncurses [installed]
                 lib32-ncurses [installed]
                 libcl
                 lib32-libcl
                 oss
                 cups [installed]
                 samba

I need to say that I'm using the fix for crackling noise in Skype: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sk … -bit_OS.29 (adding "tsched=0" to some line in /etc/pulse/default.pa). Trying to revert the fix left me without sound at all for some reason.

The .asoundrc (nothing changed as far as I remember):

$ cat ~/.asoundrc
pcm.dmixout {
  # Just pass this on to the system dmix
  type plug
  slave {
     pcm "dmix"
  }
}

defaults.pcm.rate_converter "samplerate_best"

Thanks for any hint,
PhotonX

Last edited by PhotonX (2013-06-23 19:36:55)

ZekeSulastin · 2013-06-23 15:04:23

... are you using PulseAudio or are you using dmix? The package `pulseaudio-alsa` provides an /etc/asound.conf that should direct all sound to pulse, thereby obviating the need for ~/.asoundrc for most configs. Also, having to set tsched=0 is indicative of a bad ALSA driver and really screws with latency/power management - did you look for or file a bug report over it on the tracker the page mentioned.

If you are using pulse, just bite the compile-time bullet and install `wine-multimedia` from the AUR; the patchset includes actual PulseAudio support and your underruns will be a thinkg of the past.

PhotonX · 2013-06-23 17:04:24

Thanks for your reply! I don't think, I use dmix, the .asoundrc is some default one (might actually be a pretty old one since I tend to carry my /home partition over to new system installs). I tried to remove it with no luck. pulseaudio-alsa has been already installed with following /etc/asound.conf:

# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
  hint {
    show on
    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}

ctl.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
}

# vim:set ft=alsaconf:

Since nothing changed after removing .asoundrc, maybe this asound.conf has been used all the time rather than the .asoundrc?

Concerning the tsched=0 thing, the driver is snd_hda_intel (with snd_hda_codec_realtek), the card is an ALC887-VD. The Alsa page you mentioned states that indeed some cards with snd_intel_hda (seems to be the same as snd_hda_intel) driver have problems with timer-based scheduling, but doesn't specify which ones exactly.

So now I'm following your last hint and building wine-multimedia. It had lib32-libcl as make dependency which made conflicts with lib32-catalyst-utils, so I now try building wine-multimedia with lib32-libcl removed from the makedepends list, let's see whether it builds, it takes a while. Will report back as soon as I have any news.

Last edited by PhotonX (2013-06-23 17:04:51)

PhotonX · 2013-06-23 19:36:32

wine-multimedia installed fine without lib32-libcl as makedep and the sound problems disappeared. Thanks for you help!

fettouhi · 2013-06-25 17:04:09

Same issue here and installing wine-multimedia fixes the crackling sound but now i have infinite echoes instead in game in borderlands 2 and dishonored.

boast · 2013-06-25 22:05:27

fettouhi wrote:

Same issue here and installing wine-multimedia fixes the crackling sound but now i have infinite echoes instead in game in borderlands 2 and dishonored.

For wine gaming, I found it best to use ALSA only, no PA.

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#1 2013-06-23 09:01:54

[Solved] Crackling sound in Wine

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