http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2853
tony_lambregts@telusplanet.net changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever Confirmed| |1
------- Additional Comments From tony_lambregts@telusplanet.net 2005-07-04 21:01 ------- I can confirm this bug for you but as far as the rest, uhm, well you see the way things work is that there are no component owners. That might not ever change.
Beyond that the real issue is that the reason that the buffer underruns happen is that there is no practical way to currently increase a threads priority on linux. That means that at times the process that is supposed to keep the buffer full sometimes gets starved of processing time. The technicalities involved have been discused many times on the Wine-devel mailing list. The most resent one is here. (SetProcessClass and SetThreadPriority support)
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2005/04/0080.html
It is not realy that it "keeps getting shrugged off as a system issue" there are people (more knowledgeable than myself) that are concerned about it. In the mean time I will confirm the bug.