http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24415
--- Comment #6 from Alan J Richardson ajrich@earthlink.net 2010-10-02 19:31:35 CDT --- Due to unrelated problems, I was unable to do further testing for a week or two and reformatted my Linux partition.
With a freshly updated Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, makefile build and install of today's git after apt-get build-dep wine, the problem persists. The trace consistently shows MMDRV_InitPerType and below, with a few ALSA functions sometimes appearing between that and RtlReAllocateHeap.
I'm going to try letting the launcher download to completion as soon as I can, to see if that works around the problem.