[Bug 22880] Lemmix sound effects are missing

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22880

--- Comment #14 from Jörg Höhle   2010-06-12 15:48:03 ---
Wylda, [in reply to comment #5]
> So this is valid bug report.

I do not dispute this. I simply believe that we need a single bug report about
the audio driver's inability in Wine to handle multiple concurrent opens -- or
perhaps, one such bug per audio driver:
 + bug #22261 mentions the deprecated esound driver supports multiple opens;
 + I believe MacOS' CoreAudio driver does:
     commit ef87a050c6966d43fe1b457e80faa8b0bb31755d since wine-1.1.32
 - neither wineOSS.drv
 - nor wineALSA do.
That's why I suggest to mark the present issue as duplicate (despite the Lemmix
download link).

I believe the actual sound HW (ens1371, AC'97 etc.) does not matter to Wine.
These days, most Linux systems allow multiple opens and perform mixing (ALSA's
dmix, OSS4 ...) when needed.

Note that there may be various reasons why music and sound do not mix, some
external to Wine. On a Ubuntu system with PulseAudio, I've had situations where
Timitidy grabbed the ALSA audio output (first come, first served), therefore no
other app could produce sound any more, not /usr/bin/speaker-test, nor Wine's
sound, nor any PulseAudio app.