I typed 'ventrilo wine' in my address bar, hit enter and got this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=41737 You should be able to skip step one, as the post is from 2005 (we can safely assume the Wine versions from back then made it to your current OS). As a user on that thread mentioned, most games allow for TeamSpeak as well, which has a native linux client. Good luck!