wine users - Jan 2012 - Re: Can't get GTA San Andreas to work on Linux

StylezZxDmg wrote:
> I have exactly the same problem. I also use an Intel Grafic. The screen he
posted is exactly the same as by me. But I don't know how to solve this. I
allready was in the AppDB.
>From the screenshot, the problem looks like a known regression in the Intel
driver that was fixed in the 2.16 release. If your Intel driver is not 2.16 or
later, upgrade. If that doesn't fix it, file a bug at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/

jjmckenzie wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:29 AM, StylezZxDmg <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have exactly the same problem. I also use an Intel Grafic. The
screen he posted is exactly the same as by me. But I
> > don't know how to solve this. I allready was in the AppDB.
> > 
> 
> The problem might lie not with Wine, but with the poor quality drivers
> and the inability of Intel graphics systems to support 3D actions in
> Linux.  If you can, suggestions are being made to install a late model
> nVidia graphics card and to disable the Intel graphics built-ins.  If
> you are on a laptop/netbook, you are basically 'stuck' until Intel
> improves the quality of their Linux drivers or an open-source team
> builds better ones.
> 
> James

Is there a way to check if our graphic card/driver are compatible with Wine ? 
A tool could tell that the GLX_xxx extension is missing, so DirectX 9 won't
work (example.)