http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #333 from Maurizio Oliveri 6tsukiyami9@gmail.com 2011-10-12 04:50:43 CDT --- (In reply to comment #329)
Thus, answering to your initial question: there were some PA compatibility fixes addressed during Wine's sound subsystem rewrite but you should always stick to latest versions of all components of "modern linux desktop sound subsystem" to have most old bug fixed (and new introduced).
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'