Comment 447 for bug 371897

(In reply to comment #330)
> Short question:
> Is PA 1.0 a hard requirement for getting stable sound under wine/alsa/PA combo?

Quick answer: my tests shows that the hard requirement is to have recent enough alsa-plugins (at least v.1.0.24). Actually there had been a lot of PA-related fixes to alsa-plugins since 1.0.24 (last one landed to alsa-plugins git 12 days ago) and tests I tried at home showed great improvements in overall sound stability under Wine+PA+ALSA in case I build alsa-plugins from current git HEAD.

As for PA version - everything around versions 0.9.x seemed to smell like "public alpha-test of crappy and extremely buggy software". Almost every version I had tested so far had a lot of bugs, including ones unrelated to interoperability with Wine (latency issues, incorrect manipulations with soundcard hw mixer, "rattling", sound distortions, incompatibilities with other apps, e.t.c.). Latest PA version I had tested so far was 0.9.23 and I can state that it might be considered "almost bug-free for general use" in case coupled with latest ALSA and alsa-plugins from current git. Don't know it they had fixed or broke something in 1.0 release and I personally wouldn't be happy to have almost untested piece of software to be included in F16 at a last minute. It'd be better to post in into rawhide or into testing and have volunteers test it before letting it into public. This discussion is an offtop here so I shut up :-).