Hello, I am experiencing the same hang also on Debian Squeeze. This behaviour is starting with this commit: 2c067ed31efa00f4c4baa48e5c952418b9337b3a is the first bad commit commit 2c067ed31efa00f4c4baa48e5c952418b9337b3a Author: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Feb 21 14:48:39 2010 +0100 mmdevapi: Add dependency on openal. :040000 040000 f80ff8108f3e06560f679f8cd98280b82bddd451 70b4c5173f8315f1449f9f2de52ffbf54f840237 M dlls It does not hang when creating a ~/.alsoftrc and putting following lines in it: #drivers = pulse,alsa,oss,solaris,dsound,winmm,port,wave drivers = pulse,alsa,oss,solaris,dsound,winmm,wave The first line is the default copied from /etc/openal/alsoft.conf. In the second line only "port" is removed to get it working. Kind regards Bernhard (anwer to http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=8457 )