Comment 246 for bug 371897

(In reply to comment #139)
> (In reply to comment #138)
> > [...]to not use pulse (e.g. pasuspender) or tric pulse into likeing Wine
> > (e.g. padsp, which only works for some people).
> sry, but imo pasuspender/padsp are non-solutions as for me they break more than
> they fix.

Sorry, but IMO, pulse is a non-solution because it breaks more than it fixes.

> I can give them a demo-system with non-working alsa-driver (as it kills other
> audio streams) and working pulse-driver.

Sounds like your dmix is broken, in which case you're comparing apples and oranges.

(In reply to comment #140)
> Also by definition if you can't create a native Pulse driver, then operating
> through the abstraction layer would be worse because you lose access to native
> knobs and twiddles. An abstraction layer can't offer more than the native.

The question remains, are those knobs and twiddles actually necessary for a fully-functional ALSA driver? So far no one has answered that question.