Had been trying to run Wine for a while, tried versions X, Y and Z, and every version would install and run fine except that within one to fifteen minutes I would encounter a hard freeze, requiring a reboot.

Now I have not had a freeze, just program specific bugs.

My solution was half accidental, I was kinda missing my mouse wheel (been lazy) so decided to enable it.

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I changed this:

<code>
# Option "ChordMiddle"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
</code>

to this:

<code>
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
</code>

and my wine works! .....

I have noticed that this freezing error is rare and slackware doesn't auto enable the wheel, so if U are using slack and cannot use wine well, check your drivers are correct. Would like to hear if this helps anyone else with similar issue.

ciao

New one on me, but then I always set my mouse to IMPS/2