Diablo II: Interesting sound issue in 1.3

[Mysticete]

[Running Ubuntu 11.10 and Wine 1.3, ALSA sound, 24" iMac hardware]

Sound works perfectly in Diablo II without any customization... the first time. No sound during gameplay after re-opening the application, and yet it continues to work fine for startup and in-game movies. The only fixes I've found are to either run in desktop emulation mode (which is certainly not ideal) or to un-install and re-install wine (ditto.) Any ideas for what's going on here?

[Mysticete]

Upgrading from Wine vs. 1.3.24 (available in Ubuntu Software Center) to Wine 1.3.34 (via the PPA) seems to have resolved the issue. As a side note, using the instructions on the WineHQ site to add the PPA to Software Center did not work, and instead I added the repository manually via

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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update

Although, I believe the fault there is in Ubuntu 11.10 and not in the WineHQ site. Regardless, the devs may want to make a note of it on the site.

[dimesio]

Although, I believe the fault there is in Ubuntu 11.10 and not in the WineHQ site. Regardless, the devs may want to make a note of it on the site.

Contact the Ubuntu Wine package maintainer; he's the one that wrote those instructions and who maintains that page.