I can't believe that I am the only person this has happened to. I went to the faq page and found a situation that sounded right but I am still doing something wrong. If anybody can tell me how I can make this screen readable, I would be very grateful. I am running wine 1.7 I THINK. It is hard to read any of the info that the program is sending me. The programs that I run in wine seem to work although you have to remember where the choices were - there is no way to read the drop downs. Here is my wine config screen: -- Jerry Linux Woodhaven, Mi -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: wineconfig.png Type: image/png Size: 13547 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20081116/d46dee99/attachment.png
jerlinux wrote:> I can't believe that I am the only person this has happened to. > I went to the faq page and found a situation that sounded right but I am > still doing something wrong. > > If anybody can tell me how I can make this screen readable, I would be > very grateful. > > I am running wine 1.7 I THINK. It is hard to read any of the info that > the program is sending me. The programs that I run in wine seem to work > although you have to remember where the choices were - there is no way > to read the drop downs. >I think you must mean 1.1.7. You can check by typing wine --version in the terminal. There is definitely something wrong with your setup. Rename your ~/.wine to something else, then run winecfg from the terminal. A new ~/.wine will automatically be created. If the display appears normal for the fresh wineprefix, then something you installed in the old one borked the display settings.
I too am suffering from the same problem. I have two computers, a laptop and a desktop. On both I have recently done fresh installs of Ubuntu 8.10. and Wine 1.1.8. The laptop, an old Toshiba, has no problems with font tearing in Wine. However the desktop exhibits the same problem as 'jerlinux'. I have tried different display drivers, font settings in 'System/Preferences/Appearance/' and removing and reinstalling Wine. No luck [Crying or Very sad] . Alas I have no idea what comes next.
ok this sounds dumb because I detest the idea of uninstalling and reinstalling a driver all the time but I just ininstalled the driver for my nvidia mx4000 and rebooted. the wine config and the wine windows now have text. the problem has something to do with the nvidia driver and wine.
jerlinux wrote:> Is there a way to unload the nVidia driver only for wine?No. But you can start Wine in the totally separate X server with different display driver. See for example http://wiki.winehq.org/256ColorsWorkarounds
jerlinux wrote:> > Is there anybody out there familiar with the nVidia set up screens? > Maybe there is something to be gained by messing around with some of > those settings????This is a problem specific to Ubuntu 8.10 and the nVidia drivers. There are already bug reports for it. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16146 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/300476