[Wine] Alsa driver support missing from winecfg

[Lisi]

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 00:07:48 devosion wrote:
> I had alsa support before on wine before I compiled a patched version while
> trying to run Dragon Age: Origins. I downloaded the latest tarball of wine,
> and the following two patches: bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20469, and
> bugs2.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=22894. All seemed to be going well. Wine
> compiled and installed with no errors regarding alsa drivers, but when I
> had no sound in any of my wine applications I checked winecfg to see
> whether alsa was checked. At this point winecfg gave me a message box
> saying: "Found driver in registry that is not available! Remove 'alsa' from
> registry?" I left the alsa registry info intact and switched to the oss
> driver and did a test sound, but this failed. I'm uncertain if there were
> unmet dependencies while making wine, but I received no error messages
> regarding alsa, and all the dependancy issues that came up were resolved.
> Is there an alsa driver I need to install on top of wine in order to get my
> sound back, or what exactly do I need to do? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and an
> SB Audigy ZS Sound Card. Also sound in Ubuntu works fine, only wine doesn't
> support sound as of right now.

I found that the following worked for me in a similar situation (quote from my 
earlier post):

Google finally found a solution for me that I _think_ (fingers crossed) has 
worked.  Set winecfg to OSS and install ALSA OSS wrapper.

HTH
Lisi