http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15559
--- Comment #63 from Casey caseyjp1@gmail.com 2008-12-05 23:20:04 --- (In reply to comment #62)
The last block of errors means probably that your pulseaudio is incorrectly set up.
Alsa version is important too (both lib and driver), as during pulseaudio development quite a few bugs in alsa were discovered (some of them were not fixed till 1.0.18, after all 0.9.12 (or was it 0.9.13) requires alsa of at least 1.0.17a.
Anyway, can any of the people complaining name a small, freeware app that demonstrates the error. I'd like to see, if the problem is reproducible for me. After all, point-and-click and turn-based strategies may not be the best test cases (that's what I'm using).
There were no errors until installing wine 1.1.10. Prior version of wine 1.1.9 had no errors, and although it DID have the scratch/hiss described in this bug, it was nowhere near as problematic as the sound is now.
Using padsp and OSS for winecfg is currently the ONLY way to get this application (EVE-Online) to behave somewhat normally, but the latencies introduced by using the oss solution is not optimal at all in a purely PVP environment.
As to the request for a small freeware application, no. EVE, however, IS a free download and has 14 day trial available with no credit card usage.
The ONLY change to my system was to upgrade to wine 1.1.10. alsa version: 1.0.17dfsg