wine users - Mar 2008 - Wine & Intel 945 : hangs when switching between X & console

Hi All,

I have been running WINE quite contently for the last year & think it is an
amazing product!

There is one thing though that is quite bugging and I would like to share to see
if others also have this experience and we can maybe fix..

On my laptop (it has an Intel 945 GM video chipset) I'm having problems when
using WINE.  Not with WINE itself but more with system stability.

When having run (or running) a WINE application,  as long as I stay in the X
session all is fine and there are no issues what so ever.
But when I switch to the console <ALT><F1> , try to shutdown or put
the laptop in standby the video freezes and my system locks up.  Green and white
lines on the top.

It's taken me some time to see the relation with WINE because it does not
always go wrong.
The video problem only happens when I am using or have run some application with
WINE. So I'm quite certain the problem is related to the Intel & WINE
combination. Also when I don't use WINE related stuff shutdown, reboot and
switching to the console goes normally. No hang then...

Also running winecfg often abruptly crashes the current X session and brings me
back to the login screen.

I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 which uses the new Intel driver & WINE version
9.56

I do have compiz-fusion enabled but have also disabled it to see if WINE was
having trouble with it. But the problems still occur when running a
'normal' desktop without compiz.

Anyone else having this issue?

Cheers,
  Wj

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:30 AM, WJM <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
>  On my laptop (it has an Intel 945 GM video chipset) ...
>  when I switch to the console <ALT><F1> , try to shutdown or
> put the laptop in standby the video freezes and my system locks up.
> Green and white lines on the top....
>  Also running winecfg often abruptly crashes the current X session and
brings me back to the login screen.
>  I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 which uses the new Intel driver & WINE
version 9.56
This is not a wine bug; wine's merely a way to expose it.
It is a video driver bug.
Please go talk to Suse about it.
Let us know what happens.
- Dan

> 
> This is not a wine bug; wine's merely a way to expose it.
> It is a video driver bug.
> Please go talk to Suse about it.
> Let us know what happens.
> - Dan
I did not intend to say that it was necessarily a WINE bug and am trying to find
out if others here have similair issues to share ideas and hopefully get it
fixed.
I have found similair issues mentioned in other forums (non SUSE) so it's a
hard one to put the finger on what exactly is causing this.

So far WINE is the only thing that 'exposes' the problem so thats why
I'm trying to get some help and ideas here and also hope to help other
identify this.

I will drop a bug report at OpenSUSE and let you know how that goes...

Cheers & Regards,

  Wj