[pulseaudio-discuss] padsp Wine problem

[Mikael Eriksson]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 06:46:52PM +0100, Adam Kłobukowski wrote:
> ...but I have problem with games that use Steam
> (http://www.steampowered.com). Steam is a gaming platform. You first
> launch Steam, then, using Steam you launch the game you want to play.
> 
> Unfortunately, any game I try with Steam (and padsp) just hangs on
> startup...
> 
> All other Wine apps works ok. For anyone that is willing to help to fix
> this problem, I can offer a gift of two games through Steam (for
> debugging the problem, that is ;)) : Half Life 2 and Half Life 2:
> Episode One.
> 
> (my guess is, padsp has problems with children of its child)

Have you tried to start it directly, and not through steam.
ie: cd Steam/steamapps/username/half-life\ 2
padsp wine hl2.exe

Steam doesn't seem to like my version of wine so I can't test if this
works.