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  1. Bug #371897
  2. Comment #206

Comment 206 for bug 371897

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In , Austin English (austinenglish) wrote :

(In reply to comment #99)
> So, your opinion is that someone has to rewrite ALSA stack in Wine to close
> this bug. Fine. Any ideas when?

As was pointed out in the recent wine-devel topic, there's not anyone actively maintaining the sound code. Volunteers/patches would be welcome to do this work.

> <offtopic> I wonder why all the ancient sound backends still live in the code
> tree. Doesn't ALSA and Jack cover all user needs? <offtopic/>

People forget that wine is used on more than just Linux...OpenSolaris, for instance, has no support for ALSA and depends on OSS.