Wine, pulseaudio, Starcraft problems

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe the alsa-plugin-pulseaudio or whatever the name is forces
> applications that think they are talking directly to ALSA to use pulse
> audio. The most elegant solution might be to use pactl to suspend
> pulseaudio while you're running WINE and then re-enable it once your
> done, however it's a CLI application and is not very intuitive. I know
> MythTV has a way of suspending PA while it's running but now that I
> look at the man page for pactl it only has commands for suspending a
> sink or source, not the whole daemon...

I've also seen some references to pasuspender, which might be what you
were thinking of.  It might easily do the trick.  I haven't yet tried
any of this, though....

Reid