[Wine] Alsa: underrun occured

[James McKenzie]

On 4/26/11 11:15 AM, jordan wrote:
> hi,
>
>> The fact is Ubuntu switched to PulseAudio starting with 8.04 and is
>> providing Alsa/OSS compatibility ever since.
>> So Alsa is probably not Canonical's main center of interest.
> erm.... Alsa is always going to be of main concern of ANY distribution
> of Linux.  PA doesn't replace ALSA, it just runs on top of it.
> ALSA talks directly to hardware(@ thekernel level)... Applications
> talk to PA(if using pulseaudio), then PA talks to ALSA. PA is just a
> sound server, and resides in user-space. PA, Jack, etc aren't
> replacements for ALSA - they work with ALSA.
Wine does not directly support PA nor should it.  Adding a compatibility 
layer just slows things down (witness DirectX -> OpenGL in Wine.)

Wine should not support PA, but support either ALSA or OSS (and OSS is 
NOT dead.)

James McKenzie