wine users - Apr 2011 - Steam not working on Debian 6

Hello.

On other thread I posted that I could not get Wine working on centos 5.5.

Well, I migrated to Debian 6 and got wine 1.3 working by .debs provided by
winehq.

Now, I'm wanting to run Steam (www.steampowered.com) on Debian 6, but it is
crashing with nothing. It just updates and then starts and crashes.

Here is the log:

root at ice:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam# wine Steam.exe
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation ((nil),0x32e488): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0xce03f8,0x32e488): stub
fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub.
fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x100a0, 2, 0x32d334, 4) stub
fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x100a0, 3, 0x32d338, 4) stub
fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x100a0, 4, 0x32d33c, 4) stub
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
ALSA lib ../../../src/seq/seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq
failed: No such file or directory
fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x100a8, 2, 0x32d96c, 4) stub
fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x100a8, 3, 0x32d970, 4) stub
fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x100a8, 4, 0x32d974, 4) stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation ((nil),0x33fc70): stub
fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation (0x4353f8,0x33fc70): stub
fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
fixme:dbghelp:fetch_thread_info Couldn't open thread 51 (87)
fixme:service:QueryServiceConfig2W Level 6 not implemented
fixme:service:QueryServiceConfig2W Level 6 not implemented
root at ice:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam# 
> 
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Prosaca wrote:
> root at ice:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam# wine Steam.exe
Never ever run Wine as a root! http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_as_root
Login as regular user and reinstall Steam under that user. There are no reasons
to use root on *NIX except to administer system (change system config,
install/upgrade programs).


Prosaca wrote:
> Now, I'm wanting to run Steam (www.steampowered.com) on Debian 6, but
it is crashing with nothing. It just updates and then starts and crashes.
If it still doesn't work as regular user, make sure you have latest Wine
version (wine-1.3.18) or at least wine-1.3.17. Then that you have wine_gecko
installed (command 'wine iexplore http://winehq.org' opens Wine's
home page).

If all fails, you can start steam in silent mode with 'wine steam
-silent'.