[Bug 10116] New: A warning should be shown if a sound subsystem cannot be open

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10116

           Summary: A warning should be shown if a sound subsystem cannot be
                    open
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS/GIT
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-multimedia
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: t.artem at mailcity.com


There are some sound/music applications which do not have any exception
handling for a situation when a sound cannot be routed/output.

So, if your sound system is busy (some cheap AC97/HDA ALSA audio and no
hardware mixing) and you try to run such an application it can die with some
strange error when trying to play any sound, e.g.:

Backtrace:
=>1 0x00000000 (0x0033ff08)
  2 0x7ee4f9ab in kernel32 (+0x4f9ab) (0x0033ffe8)
  3 0xb7e94707 wine_switch_to_stack+0x17() in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
0x00000000: addb        %al,0x0(%eax)

To give a user a hint, it will be sufficient to MsgBox("Sound system is busy.
Expect an application failure.");


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