http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #334 from Ben Shadwick benshadwick@gmail.com 2011-10-12 09:34:11 CDT --- (In reply to comment #333)
I usually agree with the 'stick to latest versions' thing, but I believe one thing should be noted here: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page_News The official ALSA releases have been kind of rare lately (1 during 2010, and the latest being 2011-01-31), so the only way to keep it updated is to actually compile it, which can be a problem for those users who don't have a clue on how to do it; just think at those who try Linux (mostly Ubuntu) and then find out their games/programs aren't working as they expected under Wine (and believe me, I've seen way too many of those)... I don't want to sound harsh, but unless there's a better way to keep alsa-plugins updated (at least to a version that does make the sound work), PA shouldn't be considered 'supported through alsa'
That sounds backwards from my understanding of how things work, at least on Ubuntu. I thought that PulseAudio is in charge of everything by default, and when an app (like Wine) thinks it's using ALSA in this setup, it's actually using a wrapper provided by PulseAudio that translates ALSA calls to PulseAudio calls?