wine users - Sep 2010 - Steam overlay ubuntu maverick

Hello, annoying problem here.
I've recently installed Ubuntu Maverick beta 1 with wine 1.3.2. For some
time now, my steam overlay has been functioning perfectly. Now, since installing
Maverick, I've suddenly lost the steam overlay. The process doesn't even
launch at all, and invoking it manually is impossible.

Are there any known issues with Maverick, wine, steam and the overlay that I
should be aware of? How might I go about fixing it?

Thanks for any help.

I'd like to know when the problem started happening for you.  I actually
have GamerOverlayRenderer.dll disabled in winecfg because it was preventing me
from playing half-life after the update on August 19, 2010.

As for the overlay itself running as a program, I'm a little confused.  The
overlay is just a part of Steam, correct?  Having never used the steam overlay
myself, I'm curious as to what it is, actually.

Since I disabled GamerOverlayRenderer.dll in winecfg (libraries tab), I've
been playing all of my steam games with no problem, and when I'm not
playing, the Steam icon is present in my panel and also works without any
problems.  I can chat with friends through steam chat and even purchase games,
etc through the internal browser.

lite1979 wrote:
> Since Steam Overlay broke many games when it was introduced with the
aforementioned steam update, I feel that the same problem plagues your current
system.  TF2, being a Source game, probably worked fine as long as you were
using wine 1.3 or newer, but a recent update may have broken the functionality
of the overlay.  Can you revert back to your previous distro to verify that it
still works there?

I have the old distro installed alongside the new, and I can confirm that the
overlay does work there. I have also tried downgrading to various versions of
wine within Maverick, so far no luck.

thorin wrote:
> I have the old distro installed alongside the new, and I can confirm that
the overlay does work there. I have also tried downgrading to various versions
of wine within Maverick, so far no luck.
Are you compiling your own Wine or using pre-packaged binary?

thorin wrote:
> I went ahead and compiled wine.
Did you check that config.h now contains this:

Code:
#define DECLSPEC_HOTPATCH __attribute__((__ms_hook_prologue__))


And if so, have you removed all other versions of Wine installed on your system?

For anyone tracking this thread, I got the overlay back by getting the latest
mainline kernel.
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Good to know!  Thanks for sharing.