wine users - Apr 2009 - Sound quit working for no reason

Just today my sound stopped working and I haven't updated or changed
anything in awhile.  I tried disabling and reinabling ALSA but that didn't
work.  Here is what comes up when I run winecfg:

Code:
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition
'defaults.namehint.extended'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned
error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:0,0
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition
'defaults.namehint.extended'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned
error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:0,0
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition
'defaults.namehint.extended'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned
error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:1,0
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition
'defaults.namehint.extended'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned
error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:1,0



I have two different sound devices and neither work.
I'm running Xubuntu 8.10 with Wine 1.1.17 compiled from source.

RedWagon wrote:
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:0,0
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition
'defaults.namehint.extended'
Looks like something created invalid ~/.asoundrc file. Remove it/rename it and
try again.

I spent about four hours trying to fix this and made the situation worse than it
was to begin with so I decided it would be a good time to try out LinuxMint, a
distro I had been eyeing for awhile, which fixed the problem.  The cool part is
I was able to just tar my .wine directory, put it on another hard drive, untar
it back into the new operating system and everything worked without having to
reinstall anything.  I even upgraded from 1.1.17 to 1.1.19 and it went off
without a hitch.