[Bug 22261] Love: "device already allocated" handling - requires patching winealsa.drv or using esound backend

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22261

--- Comment #3 from Raymond  2010-10-27 19:19:26 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created an attachment (id=27188)

--> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=27188) [details]
> alsa driver patch
>
> While figurinig out the kinks to get Love working, I had to patch the Alsa
> driver to make it behave like the esound one.

it is because wineesd.drv has MAX_WAVEOUTDRV

215 static WINE_WAVEOUT     WOutDev   [MAX_WAVEOUTDRV];
 216 static WINE_WAVEIN      WInDev    [MAX_WAVEINDRV];
> To summarize, my understanding is that love.exe tries to open the sound device
> twice. It works if you use the esound backend, and after a bit of investigation
> we found that applying the attached patch would make things work with the Alsa
> backend as well (e.g. change the return code from MMSYSERR_ALLOCATED to
> MMSYSERR_NOERROR).
>
> (thanks to Kevlarman for initially coming up with this fix)