pulseaudio has a tool pasuspender for apps that dont work with pulseaudio. It temporarily disables pulseaudio while the program runs. Just run wine like this; Code: pasuspender wine <app> Its just a workaround but it works. I've heard there is a pulseaudio driver in the works, whether or not it will ever be included is a different question. Personally I would love to see wine and pulseaudio work together. Also if you have the JACK sound server running you can use this to connect wine and pulseaudio, though I have never tried this.