http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #340 from Alexey Loukianov mooroon2@mail.ru 2011-12-29 14:55:11 CST --- (In reply to comment #339)
The only answers you'll get will be either "whine at your distro's mainteiners and make them update alsa-plugins to the latest git" (and it still won't solve this problem) ...
Fire up bugs please in case you've got problem after compiling and installing latest alsa-plugins from git. Whining is a cool thing but the only way to get bugs fixed is to fire up bugs and do anything you can to sort them out.
or "remove pulsaudio and go back to alsa" (because who needs pulse? On a totally unrelated topic, switch to Netscape, no need for new fancy browsers or new web standards)...
You don't know what you're talking about. PA is a buggy thing, alsa pulse plugin is also a buggy thing, and even default ALSA's dmix+plug setup is a buggy thing. Wanna details? Monitor wine-bugs list for messages by Andrew Eikum and Jörg Höhle - they are working really hard to workaround all the bugs in ALSA+dmix+PA+Wine that had been reported so far.
So yeah, never thought I'd say this, but if you need audio output you should really consider a dual boot system with Linux and Windows, Wine simply won't work as for now. PROVE ME WRONG AND FIXE AUDIO ISSUES WITH PULSE PLEASE.
In case you wanna be 100% sure about compatibility - dual booting is a good choice. If you can handle some problems - Wine isn't a bag choice either.