http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20087
--- Comment #5 from Robert M. Muncrief rmuncrief@comcast.net 2009-09-18 23:11:51 --- (In reply to comment #4)
(In reply to comment #2)
And I would consider all Orange Box Half Life 2 games freezing after loading, and sometimes locking up Linux so that a hard reset was required as critical.
Hard lockup are mostly related to driver problems. Wine is a user program and can't lock up things unless your are running as root or it is trigging a driver bug. What video card and driver version?
I have an Nvidia 7800GT running the latest binary driver 185.18.36 on Ubuntu Jaunty x86_64. I never run as root, was logged in under my normal account, and experienced 3 lock ups that required a hard reset during the two hours I spent bisecting this problem.