Posted this in General Help, figured it would probably be better to post it here.

It appears a lot people have issues with Wine freezing, but I can't seem to find an answer or a problem completely similar to mine.

I had Wine working perfectly 6 days ago. All my games and applications were running smoothly and I don't recall changing anything. Well, all of a sudden (this might've been because of an update), any game I ran with Wine froze up within 5 to 20 minutes (randomly each time) - mouse couldn't move, keyboard interaction weren't a possibility and so I couldn't close Wine or kill X or basically anything. I tried to reinstall Wine several times, and nothing worked, so I went ahead and did a complete fresh install of Ubuntu. I updated the updates the update manager had to offer, installed Wine, Audacious and a couple of other applications I had, even before the problem started and the problem still happens.

It seems that this is not actually related to an update to Wine, as I hadn't updated it. It's neither something I installed, as I've rebuilt my computer exactly as it were before, when Wine was working.

This might be related to some sound driver problem, though, as it's only an issue when running applications/games that requires sound. I've tried to configure the sound driver in any way I could figure (OSS, ALSA, both at the same time and without. Hardware and Emulation of sound etc.). So it might possibly be related to an update to the sound system, if there have been one recently, because the issue came out-of-nowhere and stays even after a complete reinstall of Ubuntu. It could also possibly be related to some issue with hardware getting damaged, but I highly doubt it, as everything non-Wine is working. But again, the problem stays, even without sound drivers enabled.

Help would be much appreciated.

- Don S.