[Bug 4131] Steam & games freezes

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4131

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-02-02 23:48 -------
i can confirm this bug as well, previously running ubuntu breezy 5.10 w/ kernel
revision 2.6.10 under xorg 6.9 RC4 using ALSA.  both wine-preloader and
wineserver appear to be gobbling up cpu time until the system becomes unstable,
ctrl + alt + f1-f6 will temporarily release a hold on some of the cycles and
appear to "unfreeze" the application.  recently i read somewhere someone with
kernel 2.6.15 was running steam flawlessly, and so i decided to upgrade, i
patched a vanilla 2.6.15 from kernel.org following the how-to's assembled in
this post (for ubuntu users, w/ some modification may apply to debian) :

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=124692

bug may actually not exist in wine.