http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13998
--- Comment #4 from Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2008-06-21 13:33:39 --- Did you change any ALSA settings (in .asoundrc or Wine registry)? Looks like Wine tries to use hw access aka direct access to the ALSA device. And if you don't have dmix enabled by default that's what you get.