>>>>> I have tested the following and I believe found they were not the problem: >>>>--snip-- >>>>> (3) problem with pulseaudio >>>> >>>>How did you determine this? I thought you said your version of Ubuntu >>>>was crippled if pulseaudio was removed, so did you use pasuspender? If >>>>so, did you verify there was no pulseaudio process running while you >>>>were testing Wine? >>> >>> After I started my testing, I did run into problems when I tried to >>> re-install pulseaudio and then remove it, but the PA problem was unrelated. >>> Ubuntu said there was a PA bug, and issued a fix. After I applied the fix, >>> no more problems working with pulseaudio removed. So the whole thing was >>> sort of a red herring. >>> >>> I have re-installed my entire system since that problem went away, and >>> immediately purged pulseaudio, and that's where I'm working from now. Still >>> same problem. >> >>OK, thanks for that clarification. >> >>So you've tracked the problem down to kernel version 2.6.29? What >>version of ALSA drivers are in your working and broken kernels? > >I've actually tracked it to before that. > >Wine's audio last worked with one of Ubuntu's generic kernels, probably >2.6.28-10. >Ubuntu's current repository kernel is 2.6.28-11. That's the one I that caused >the problem. >The experimental bug-fix kernel is 2.6.28-12. That does not solve my problem. >(Here's where I got the kernel: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~dtchen/test-kernels/ >) > >When my kernel worked, my drivers were 0.1.19 -- one of Tashaki Iwai's daily >stable builds from a couple of weeks ago. >They are 0.1.19 now, today's daily stable build, compiled against >2.6.29-1-rt8-custom, which is what I am running at the moment. > >My 29-rt kernel is showing the same problems as the two kernels mentioned >above. >FWIW, the person who compiled the RT kernel said that he did so without >applying the Ubuntu patches. So that tells me that the change took place >outside the Ubuntu patches.
Well, this may be a pulseaudio problem after all. It may not be a wine problem. For the first time this morning, I tried running audacity -- the linux version. (My system has pulseaudio purged.) Audacity behaves the same way under Linux it does under wine, freezing when I stop and re-start the record function. I filed ubuntu bug 369762.
