wine sound freezes system

[Bernhard Mogens Ege]

>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com> writes:

>     No solution, but another data point.  I have two systems with
> Alsa (0.5.10b generally), with the VIA686 codec, and on both of them
> I can fairly consistently get a process hung inside an open call
> in the Alsa driver (only with Wine).  For me, I don't lose my system, 
> I simply have to reboot in order to recapture sound.

>     I discussed this in substantial detail with Ulrich Weigand on
> wine-devel,
> and we came closer to understanding the problem, but we have
> not resolved it.

>     At any rate, I don't think that's enormously helpful, but
> you should know that you're not alone.

>     Jeremy

Thank you for info. I also suspect a faulty kernel module being loaded 
which freezes my machine when it is being unloaded (I do hear disk
access just before the freeze). I will try to manually load/unload
modules to see if the could be the problem.

Bernhard