wine users - Jan 2010 - No graphic

Hello

A few months ago I had to reinstall Ubuntu. Then, of course, my wine was removed
as well, and I had to install it again. I have had Football Manager 10 working
before, but I can't get it working any more. It's basically just a lot
of colours, but no real graphic. I can't see anything so I have to kill it.
I thought it was just me being bad at these stuff, but now when I tried playing
FlatOut 2, almost the same thing happened.

I started the game, and all the intro stuff is working great. Then when the
loading screen pops up, it's mostly just a lot of colours. Sometimes
it's just black background, and sometimes it's my desktop view that is
messed up as a background. But when the loading is done, I get into the menus
and it works beautifully. Until I try to start a race. Then this messed up
picture pops up again while loading, then the whole screen gets grey and
freezes. And when I try to start them with the console I get some kind of error
saying something with some database thing.

I also tried FlatOut 1, exactly the same as with FlatOut 2 happened, except I
could start it with the console and got:


Code:
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f414,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f4ac,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init The application requested more than one back buffer,
this is not properly supported.
Please configure the application to use double buffering (1 back buffer) if
possible.
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to
SetDepthStencilSurface
fixme:d3d9:Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9 stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from
multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x45d7fa0,0x45d7ea0): stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from
multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_upload_data
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glCompressedTexSubImage2DARB @ surface.c / 532
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_upload_data
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glCompressedTexSubImage2DARB @ surface.c / 532
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_upload_data
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glCompressedTexSubImage2DARB @ surface.c / 532
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0xff9cb0b3 at address 0x7bc47c44
(thread 0009), starting debugger...
Killed




Any thoughts? Kind of frustrating since at least football manager was working
before.

Hmm, no editing. Well, I just found out some more things to write.

I use Ubuntu 9.19.
Wine version: 1.1.35
Winetricks: dxd3d_30 & 36. allfonts. allcodecs.

allcodecs doesnt work though. At least not all of them. It crases after XVID,
saying "sha1sum mismatch!  Rename
/home/danne/.winetrickscache/./codinstl.exe and try again."

And I have tried removing the whole .winetrickscache folder, with no success.

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 06:26 -0600, jasse wrote:
> A few months ago I had to reinstall Ubuntu. Then, of course, my wine
> was removed as well, and I had to install it again. I have had
> Football Manager 10 working before, but I can't get it working any
> more. It's basically just a lot of colours, but no real graphic. I
> can't see anything so I have to kill it. I thought it was just me
> being bad at these stuff, but now when I tried playing FlatOut 2,
> almost the same thing happened.
> 
For future reference:

Don't use the default installation (two partitions - one for the filing
system, one swap partition). 

Instead, do a custom install with at least three partitions. Put /home
in its own partition. This way you can do a clean install without losing
your data: reformat the root and swap partitions and leave the /home
partition untouched apart from saying how to mount it. You'll have to
set up the user(s) again, but that's no problem - just make sure you
create them with the same UID and GID that you used before. Opening a
console window and running 'ls -l /home' shows you which UID+GID belongs
to each user login.

If you install stuff in /usr/local, move /usr/local to /home/local and
replace it with a symbolic link (as root):

    cd /usr
    mv local /home/local
    ln -s /home/local local

and everything works as before. Then after a clean install, simply
running

    cd /usr/
    rm -rf local
    ln -s /home/local local

reinstates everything you've installed in /usr/local.

I use a lot more partitions (/boot, / , /tmp, /var, /usr, /home, swap
and a small encrypted one for passwords etc) but thats because it suits
the way I like to manage a computer: putting /tmp and /var in separate
partitions limits the damage runaway writing programs can do. 

Three partitions is a sensible minimum.


Martin