Hi all Of interest to developers and Linux users with nvidia cards running Xorg7.1. 3 days ago I built wine-0.9.14 from source on a linuxfromscratch system. The built went fine. However, the fonts on all wine dialog boxes (e.g. winecfg) were invisible. I spent several hours rebuilding, trying out different combinations of freetype / fontforge etc. Anyway, my box uses an nvidia card and for 3d graphics accel I use the nvidia driver (version 8762 - partially supported in Xorg7.1). Switching back to the slower nv that comes with Xorg7.1, lo and behold, the fonts were visible and wine seems to work fine. So, I ended up having to switch drivers whenever I wish to use wine, trying to hold my breath until a new version of nvidia driver is released that supports the ABI of Xorg7.1 (:( Same holds for wine-0.9.15 that just came out.
A. Drosos <drososa@otenet.gr> wrote:> were visible and wine seems to work fine. So, I ended up having to switch > drivers whenever I wish to use wine, trying to hold my breath until a new > version of nvidia driver is released that supports the ABI of Xorg7.1 (:(It's called cutting edge for a reason.. ;-) Daniel
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 13:31 +0000, A. Drosos wrote:> Hi all > > Of interest to developers and Linux users with nvidia cards running Xorg7.1. > > 3 days ago I built wine-0.9.14 from source on a linuxfromscratch system. > The built went fine. However, the fonts on all wine dialog boxes (e.g. > winecfg) were invisible. I spent several hours rebuilding, trying out > different combinations of freetype / fontforge etc. > > Anyway, my box uses an nvidia card and for 3d graphics accel I use the > nvidia driver (version 8762 - partially supported in Xorg7.1). Switching > back to the slower nv that comes with Xorg7.1, lo and behold, the fonts > were visible and wine seems to work fine. So, I ended up having to switch > drivers whenever I wish to use wine, trying to hold my breath until a new > version of nvidia driver is released that supports the ABI of Xorg7.1 (:( > > Same holds for wine-0.9.15 that just came out. >A few days ago someone on the fedora-test list posted the following that seems may be applicable to your problem. It may be worth a try and see if the work-around fixes your issue. -------------------------------- It seems xorg and nvidia dislike each other with the latest version of xorg. By putting in the Option line in the "Device" section, nvidia again works correctly. You can now see the fonts on kde. Here is my "Device" section from /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" Option "RenderAccel" "false" <--------- This is line to add EndSection --------------------------------> > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:00:12 -0500, Jeff Vian <jvian10@charter.net> wrote:>> >A few days ago someone on the fedora-test list posted the following that >seems may be applicable to your problem. It may be worth a try and see >if the work-around fixes your issue.... Thank you Jeff. I was already using this option to enable font visibility in my X-windows. The proprietary nvidia driver doesn't work otherwise with Xorg 7.1. However, this option has no effect on wine fonts. I do have to fall back on the slower nv driver if I use wine. Probably something to do with the font generation mechanism. Anyway, as another person said this is "cutting edge" and I have to wait for nvidia to release a new driver if I want 3d accel. Unless someone comes up with another option? Thanks guys.