http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10632
--- Comment #4 from Dennis Eckhaus eckhaus1@comcast.net 2007-12-01 18:39:03 --- I renamed the /usr/lib/wine/winealsa.drv.so to winealsa.drv.so.old and then wineprefixcreate was able to successfully complete.
The winecfg ran as well, and when I clicked the audio tab it offered to delete the Alsa registry entry as it said the driver was not there. I said no to that in hopes that eventually this will get sorted, perhaps in either another alsa upgrade or a Wine version upgrade. I selected OSS from the choices in winecfg of either OSS or Jack.
My "DreamAquarium" program ran fine with the "bubbles" audio track it plays so I guess the sound is working okay.
But this isn't completely right, correct? I have the full .15 (whatever the rest of the numbers are) release version of Alsa installed, as contained in the OpenSUSE Build Service Multimedia Audio repository. The rest of the audio on my system is using Alsa and working fine. Why is Wine having a problem with it?
Not sure what status this bug should have now, since this solution although getting Wine to work really does not fix the problem of the Alsa driver not working. It just works around it by substituting the OSS driver, which is actually using the alsa-oss wrapper I assume.
So, do you think it is the final released version of Alsa that is the buggy program or Wine's use of it?