http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28757
Bug #: 28757 Summary: Lord of the Rings Online lost audio capabilities in ALSA Product: Wine Version: 1.3.27 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: samurai_no_densetsu@yahoo.es Classification: Unclassified
In recent versions of wine Lord of the Rings Online lost sound, music and voice-chat when ran on an pure ALSA setup. It doesn't even show the available audio devices into the game options, and reviously it worked out of the box.
After a bit of research found that setting openal32 as native in winecfg restores sound and music, but not voice-chat. Also, using pulseaudio enables again all sound capabilities, but this is not an ideal scenario for ALSA users.
The game client can be downloaded at: http://www.lotro.com/support/download-lotro