Current Ubuntu sound bugs relating to wine OSS 409395. ALSA 407970
-----I got this response on the Ubuntu list------ This is probably due to a libasound2-plugins and pulseaudio/rtkit skew; the latest libasound2-plugins needs at least pulseaudio 1:0.9.16~test3 and rtkit 0.3. Karmic has an older version of pulseaudio (1:0.9.15) at the moment. --------------------------------------------------------------
After further checking I determined that the current kernel changes are supposed to make the regular kernel capable of running at real-time (right now, for outgoing sound only) by activating a switch on the regular kernel. This functionality, of course, needs pulseaudio. Despite the optimism expressed above, pulseaudio 1:0.9016~test4 and the latest rtkit did not solve my problem. Wine still has no functioning sound.
Stay tuned.