Okay, so I've done the requisite searching around, and I'm either missing something unbelievably simple, or something funny is going on here. I'm attempting to run a couple of simple games under Wine 0.9.57 in Gutsy on my new System76 laptop. When I attempt to run either of them, the loading graphic comes up, but the moment they attempt to change to fullscreen, X crashes. No warnings, no output to the terminal, just a brief flash back to a text terminal and then right back to GDM. So, it's obviously something video related, yet I'm rather surprised X is dying so fantastically in this way. Could the fact that it's a widescreen resolution have something to do with it? How should I begin to diagnose this problem? Something else that's strange. I've unpacked both of these games into ~/.wine/drive_c/games/<gamedir>, but when I attempt to run either of them, files are copied from <gamedir> into my home directory. In the case of one game (called "La Mulana"), it is a .ini file. In the case of the other, it is two .dlls and an .xm music file that the game plays. This would seem to indicate these files are being copied as they are accessed. Any ideas what's going on here?? System: System 76 Darter Ultra (Asus-built?) Processor: Core 2 Duo T7700 2.4 GHz 800 MHz FSB 4 MB L2 Memory: 2 x 2 GB DDR2 667 MHZ Display: 12.1" WXGA (1280 x 800) Graphics: Intel GMA X3100 Audio: Realtek ALC 883H
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:32 AM, walkeraj <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I'm attempting to run a couple of simple games under Wine 0.9.57 > in Gutsy on my new System76 laptop. When I attempt to run either of > them, the loading graphic comes up, but the moment they attempt >to change to fullscreen, X crashes.That usually means a graphics driver bug or kernel mismatch.> System: System 76 Darter Ultra (Asus-built?) > > Processor: Core 2 Duo T7700 2.4 GHz 800 MHz FSB 4 MB L2 > Memory: 2 x 2 GB DDR2 667 MHZ > Display: 12.1" WXGA (1280 x 800) > Graphics: Intel GMA X3100 > Audio: Realtek ALC 883HDoes glxgears work ok? - Dan
Yes, glxgears works just fine. 861 frames in 5.0 seconds = 172.082 FPS
On 22/03/2008, walkeraj <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I'm attempting to run a couple of simple games under Wine 0.9.57 in Gutsy on my new System76 laptop. When I attempt to run either of them, the loading graphic comes up, but the moment they attempt to change to fullscreen, X crashes. No warnings, no output to the terminal, just a brief flash back to a text terminal and then right back to GDM. > So, it's obviously something video related, yet I'm rather surprised X is dying so fantastically in this way. Could the fact that it's a widescreen resolution have something to do with it? How should I begin to diagnose this problem? > Graphics: Intel GMA X3100If Wine crashes X, then it's because of a video driver problem. Wine will never be able to crash X if the video driver is working properly. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#Linux , this chip has proper open source drivers in the Xorg server. So this is likely a reportable bug. I'm not sure who you'd report it to in the first instance ... If you can reproduce it, you might report it to Ubuntu first. Dunno what they'd need to do something with the bug report ... - d
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:46 AM, walkeraj <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Yes, glxgears works just fine. > 861 frames in 5.0 seconds = 172.082 FPS >Are you sure you have the correct driver? That is horribly slow on a modern machine. I get 4 times that on my core2 laptop with intel graphics. John
Okay. After pushing to the beta of "Hardy heron", one of the games works (albeit extremely slow and without sound effects) and the other fails without crashing X, so I suppose this thread is over, though I am still getting those slow framerates you spoke of with glxgears in -fullscreen, and they also do not appear to change size in fullscreen. Still, it seems these are graphics driver issues with this particular machine now and I will have to go elsewhere to try and get them sped up.