[Bug 55944] New: ALSA audio driver completely broken in wine stable

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55944

Bug ID: 55944
           Summary: ALSA audio driver completely broken in wine stable
           Product: Wine
           Version: 8.0.2
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
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When starting a TRLE-created game, ALSA seems to get in a weird state. Other
native Linux applications using ALSA stop outputting sound or freeze. For
example, playing a video with mpv will simply stop playing, until you seek or
toggle pause twice.

This used to work until maybe some weeks or months ago. I'm unsure whether it's
a wine update or a problem with alsa-lib.

My setup is slightly weird because I have an ALSA snd_dummy driver instance
loaded, which I selected in winecfg as audio output driver. I don't normally
want sound, but the game requires a sound output to start at all.

TRLE is the Tomb Raider Level Editor. Games created with it can be found in
masses at https://www.trle.net/pFind.php (any with type TR4 should trigger
this). The original Tomb Raider 4 probably has the same problems, because these
games use a patched tomb4.exe.

My current workaround is switching to the pulse driver, starting pulseaudio
before starting the game, and killing pulseaudio after the game has started.