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I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and Wine 1.01. I loaded Steam with PlayOnLinux and Counter-Strike Source as well. I can load Counter-Strike alright, but when I try to populate servers the font is pretty messed up and hard to read, which frankly doesn't bother me that much, however when I try to load a server it either freezes when it has completed loading the server and I am about to pick a team or it simply kicks me back to the Ubuntu desktop before it loads the game. Any ideas?