http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #286 from Raymond superquad.vortex2@gmail.com 2011-01-07 22:45:04 CST --- (In reply to comment #277)
(In reply to comment #274)
since pulseaudio cannot be removed in ubuntu 10.10 anymore, winealsa is using pulse device instead of dmix/dsnoop.
In that case, Wine cannot officially provide support for Ubuntu users, especially in light of the apparent removal of dsound support from winepulse.
This is the best enviornment for wine since all alsa applications are using default device and no oss application when they removed oss emulation
Just need system preference to add an option to redirect all sound to a null sink or to snd-dummy.
wine application can have exclusive access of the real alsa sound card "front:0" or "surround51:0"