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--- snip --- i had the same problem. I use wine with Ubuntu Daper on Core T7200 Duo Laptop. I moved from the kernel 2.6.15-28-386 to 2.6.15-28-686 and wine starts to freeze. * moving from nvidia to vesa-driver -> no luck * set Hyperthreading-kernelswitch ht=on to ht=off -> no luck
After moving back to 2.6.15-28-386 it worked again.
The workaround ist to use the 386-kernel. (Linux version 2.6.15-28-386 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Thu May 10 09:45:43 UTC 2007)
PS: I used wine_0.9.39~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1_i386.deb and wine_0.9.9-0ubuntu2_i386.deb --- snip ---