Re: How to make your machine crash when running Wine
It would be good if we had this as an FAQ entry somewhere. Thanks, Scott Ritchie On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 21:41 -0400, gslink wrote: If you are using the Nvidia drivers posted on the Nvidia web site then you MUST reinstall these drivers whenever you update ANY of the X-server software. If you replace the kernel you will be forced to reinstall the drivers but just replacing the X-server or the open GL code does not do this. Not reinstalling drivers when video code is replaced usually causes problems. It seems like every time RH updates any video code but does not upgrade the kernel at the same time there are complaints that Wine causes machines to crash. This is the reason.
re: How to make your machine crash when running Wine
There's a similar discussion going on here: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wine/96022-wine-hard-system-freeze-new-post.html --- snip --- i had the same problem. I use wine with Ubuntu Daper on Core T7200 Duo Laptop. I moved from the kernel 2.6.15-28-386 to 2.6.15-28-686 and wine starts to freeze. * moving from nvidia to vesa-driver - no luck * set Hyperthreading-kernelswitch ht=on to ht=off - no luck After moving back to 2.6.15-28-386 it worked again. The workaround ist to use the 386-kernel. (Linux version 2.6.15-28-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Thu May 10 09:45:43 UTC 2007) PS: I used wine_0.9.39~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1_i386.deb and wine_0.9.9-0ubuntu2_i386.deb --- snip ---
Re: How to make your machine crash when running Wine
gslink wrote: If you are using the Nvidia drivers posted on the Nvidia web site then you MUST reinstall these drivers whenever you update ANY of the X-server software. If you replace the kernel you will be forced to reinstall the drivers but just replacing the X-server or the open GL code does not do this. Not reinstalling drivers when video code is replaced usually causes problems. It seems like every time RH updates any video code but does not upgrade the kernel at the same time there are complaints that Wine causes machines to crash. This is the reason. X crashes for any OpenGL application in that case and not only wine. bye michael -- Michael Stefaniuc Tel.: +49-711-96437-199 Sr. Network EngineerFax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbHEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hauptstaetterstr. 58http://www.redhat.de/ D-70178 Stuttgart
Re: How to make your machine crash when running Wine
That's nothing to do with Wine nor does it make the machine crash. The nVidia driver works enough to run X and 2D but X closes itself if you do anything related to OpenGL (i.e. it'll happen even if you try and run glxinfo). I've never had it happen from an X update though, just minor kernel updates without recompiling the driver (i.e. 2.6.22-1 to 2.6.22-2). Ben H. gslink wrote: If you are using the Nvidia drivers posted on the Nvidia web site then you MUST reinstall these drivers whenever you update ANY of the X-server software. If you replace the kernel you will be forced to reinstall the drivers but just replacing the X-server or the open GL code does not do this. Not reinstalling drivers when video code is replaced usually causes problems. It seems like every time RH updates any video code but does not upgrade the kernel at the same time there are complaints that Wine causes machines to crash. This is the reason.
Re: How to make your machine crash when running Wine
Most of the people here are probably smarter than to fall into this trap but I recently had several customers who did. Most of the time openGL just refuses to run but a couple of months ago RH did put out an update to some of the X code that did cause the machine to crash with Wine if you didn't replace the Nvidia driver. The customers were running some things under Wine that used hardware acceleration. If they had used hardware acceleration outside of Wine the machine would have crashed too. This is not a Wine problem but it is likely to be a source of regular complaints.
