You probably were using the ESD plugin, weren't you? Also, for recent issues between Wine and PA, I came up with a not-that-decent solution: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.2/+bug/502375/comments/10 Cheers, Jorl17 btw: Until I had those issues, I ran Wine perfectly in over 6 machines running PA. One of them had 5.1 output and it just worked(tm).
