http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #327 from Ben Shadwick benshadwick@gmail.com 2011-09-30 10:33:28 CDT --- (In reply to comment #326)
Yes, PulseAudio is supported through its ALSA compatibility plugin. It's possible that a PulseAudio driver might happen at some point, but there's no plans for one at the moment. There's some more information here: http://wiki.winehq.org/Sound
Thanks Andrew, but this makes it sound like none of the Wine compatibility issues with PulseAudio have been addressed on Wine's end via the mmdevapi rewrite. Is this true?
A link from your link suggests that a PulseAudio alsa-plugin fix may be in Ubuntu 11.10 that addresses buffer underrun issues. This is a good thing, but does mean that those stuck on other Ubuntu versions (or non-Ubuntu distros using older PulseAudio versions) may still have issues with Wine + pulseaudio.