Hi guys, In a classic case of "don't fix whats not broke" I wiped Linux Mint 6 off my HD and installed Linux Mint 8, and now I cannot get things to work well, or at all, in wine. I presume its an open gl problem. Games that used to work out of the box such as warcraft III just crash to a black screen.. or games that do work stutter and are unplayable, such as Half Life. I initially was running the stable repositories version of wine, but since all the problems i tried upgading to the newest version, no joy. Additionally i tried rolling back my nvidia drivers, no joy.. Thanks for reading my post guys, Dave
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 06:03 -0600, zomgieee wrote:> Hi guys, > > In a classic case of "don't fix whats not broke" I wiped Linux Mint 6 > off my HD and installed Linux Mint 8, and now I cannot get things to > work well, or at all, in wine. > > I presume its an open gl problem. >Do you have a list of additional packages and upgrades that you applied to Mint 6? And did you reapply them to Mint 8? Keeping such a list is essential. As a bonus, it is trivial to make the list executable. Hint: it becomes a list of package install commands. Simply run it after a fresh Linux install. This and related tricks have halved the time it takes me to get a fresh install working with all my old applications. Since the major distros issue a new version every 6-9 months doing this is very worthwhile. Martin