http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18942
--- Comment #9 from Marcos sombra2eternity@gmail.com 2009-06-17 08:43:21 --- Well, i want to leave a comment saying this report its not abandoned by relating my little failures/progress.
As you said Vitaly i are using pulse audio, i killed it, then it respawn. Once i modified '/etc/pulse/client.conf' and set the respawn var to 'no' i could kill it in the way i want. I go to system->preferences->audio (other language,i try to translate, but figure out if wrong :P) and set all to alsa, no sound working as result. Change all to ESD and set winecfg in eSound mode, but it make all going hell wrong with the following msg:
This sound card's driver does not support direct access The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
aaaaaah! , like 0.000001FPS the main menu, i killed it, then i uncheked all sound winecfg tab options, i used to think 'no sound, no hurt', but still worse (i will attach img), in the nvidia logo scene, the lizard pass through nvidia logo (the should kick it off).
Last try, i started ESD daemon, things started making sound, i cheched alsa option un winecfg, and rerun UT, loaded my profile and said me i was broke and someone pass me credits to preserve me in the tournament <- this make me to kill profile, and create a new one, because the workspace where the bug apeared has changed and maybe it cant be reproduced, i will do later and report.
Its appear to be the you said, Vitaly, the pulseaudio break steam apps (https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/367379), but i will try to confirm before close bug. And i want to say that maybe there are a few more things broken related to the audio stuff (i know all wine audio drivers are not complete, but no sound->strange behaviour seems to cross the line).
Thanks for your time, and i hope the current thread "Fate of pulseaudio" ends on some more pulseaudio support.