Comment 420 for bug 371897

(In reply to comment #314)
> I'm no expert, but here's what I know.
> In ubuntu, the standard way to not have pulseaudio is to disable it among the
> start menu options, and then edit
> /etc/pulse/client.conf
> so that "autospawn" is uncommented and changed to "no."
>
> Wine uses the default soundcard, so changing the default soundcard should use a
> little script in the user's file called .asoundrc
>
> which should have as its text something that points to whatever soundcard you
> want to use. The following is a sample script that points away from the onboard
> card (which is 0) and to the installed pc card, which is technically card #1,
> at least on my machine.
>
> pcm.!default {
> type hw
> card 1
> }
> ctl.!default {
> type hw
> card 1
> }
>
> I realize that this is all useless for someone still trying to make pulseaudio
> work with wine, even using pasdp.

I appreciate the info, but I fear that discussion of end-user workarounds may serve only to derail discussion of a real fix unless the Wine developers really have no intention of working this issue.

It should also be mentioned that this workaround has also already been discussed here. In fact, I recently commented that it causes me to lose the ability to adjust Wine's volume in Ubuntu via the volume buttons on both my laptop and my USB keyboard :(