wine users - Aug 2010 - Wine 1.2 + Kernel 2.6.34.2 + nVidia 256.44 + WoW = Crash!

The above mentioned combination results in WoW/Wine crashing my computer
completely. It freezes completely. No mouse, no keyboard. It just sits there. I
can though login via SSH from another computer, and the load is then sitting at
14-15 (using top), which is a bit high.  :)

The only way to get it back in normal shape, is a hard reboot. Click the
powerbutton for 4 seconds, and hope for the best.

While logged in via SSH I get these messages on a regular basis:


Code:
Message from syslogd at thomas at Mon Aug  2 21:22:06 2010 ...
thomas kernel: Stack:

Message from syslogd at thomas at Mon Aug  2 21:22:06 2010 ...
thomas kernel: Call Trace:

Message from syslogd at thomas at Mon Aug  2 21:22:06 2010 ...
thomas kernel: Code: e8 89 c0 0f b7 04 42 0f b7 c0 c3 89 d1 b8 00 00 00 00 39 96
84 02 00 00 76 11 48 8b 96 c0 02 00 00 89 c8 c1 e8 02 89 c0 8b 04 82 <f3>
c3 39 96 90 02 00 00 76 0c 89 d2 48 8b 86 d8 02 00 00 88 0c




I've no clue what it means.

When I revert to nVidia driver 256.35 everything appears to be back to normal.

It doesn't matter whether I start the game using OpenGL or D3D. The same
thing happens.

I'm running Slackware 13.1.

ThomasLocke wrote:
> The above mentioned combination results in WoW/Wine crashing my computer
completely. It freezes completely. No mouse, no keyboard. It just sits there. I
can though login via SSH from another computer, and the load is then sitting at
14-15 (using top), which is a bit high.  :)
>
> The only way to get it back in normal shape, is a hard reboot. Click the
powerbutton for 4 seconds, and hope for the best.
>
> While logged in via SSH I get these messages on a regular basis:
>
>
> Code:
> Message from syslogd at thomas at Mon Aug  2 21:22:06 2010 ...
> thomas kernel: Stack:
>
> Message from syslogd at thomas at Mon Aug  2 21:22:06 2010 ...
> thomas kernel: Call Trace:
>
> Message from syslogd at thomas at Mon Aug  2 21:22:06 2010 ...
> thomas kernel: Code: e8 89 c0 0f b7 04 42 0f b7 c0 c3 89 d1 b8 00 00 00 00
39 96 84 02 00 00 76 11 48 8b 96 c0 02 00 00 89 c8 c1 e8 02 89 c0 8b 04 82
<f3> c3 39 96 90 02 00 00 76 0c 89 d2 48 8b 86 d8 02 00 00 88 0c
>
>
>   
This is very bad.  This means that something in Linux crashed.  I don't 
know and at this point it might be a good idea to ask questions on your 
Linux distro's forums.

James McKenzie

James McKenzie wrote:
> ThomasLocke wrote:
> This is very bad.  This means that something in Linux crashed.  I don't
> know and at this point it might be a good idea to ask questions on your 
> Linux distro's forums.
> 
> James McKenzie

I've just reverted to the older Nvidia 256.35 module, and the problem is now
gone.