IDAFree-4.9: screen does not get displayed properly

Juergen Leising · Post by **Juergen Leising** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:14 pm

Hello,

when I try and run IDA (wine idafree49.exe) under wine-0.9.56
(also wine-0.9.36) the screen with the assembler listing
(and other listings) does not get displayed properly:
The strings overwrite each other, thus leading to an unreadable
result. Cf.

http://www.screenshots.cc/view_image/6c ... 0.9.56.png

I have tried various settings in winecfg, but without success.

The graphics card is a matrox mga550, and the monitor is an lcd
monitor, connected via DVI port. Is this a problem for wine?

What could I do to get a "normal" display?

Bye, bye

Juergen

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:34 pm

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Juergen Leising <[email protected]> wrote:

when I try and run IDA (wine idafree49.exe) under wine-0.9.56
(also wine-0.9.36) the screen with the assembler listing
(and other listings) does not get displayed properly:
The strings overwrite each other, thus leading to an unreadable
result. Cf.

http://www.screenshots.cc/view_image/6c ... 0.9.56.png

That looks kind of like
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7117

Does doing
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/s ... urie32.exe
wine courie32.exe
help?

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:37 pm

Install msttcorefonts maybe?

Bill

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:04 pm

I tested ida just now and I do not see any text being overwritten as you show in your screenshot (I have msttcorefonts) but what I do see is ASCII DC2 and DC3 chars inserted into some of the disassembly comments which show up as arrows pointing up and down respectively. Perhaps these control chars are doing naughty things when using the wine font substitutes? Are they supposed to be there as a normal IDA behavior? I have not used this program before so I have no idea.

Bill

Juergen Leising · Post by **Juergen Leising** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:29 pm

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:34:29PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:

Does doing
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/s ... urie32.exe
wine courie32.exe
help?

Yes, it does. Perfectly. I would have never thought that this was
a fonts issue.

Many thanks, indeed, for the quick response.

Bye, bye

Juergen

Juergen Leising · Post by **Juergen Leising** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:38 pm

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:04:37PM -0600, billstei wrote:

I tested ida just now and I do not see any text being overwritten as you show in your screenshot (I have msttcorefonts)

well, I didn't have these before,

but what I do see is ASCII DC2 and DC3 chars inserted into some of the disassembly comments which show up as arrows pointing up and down respectively. Perhaps these control chars are doing naughty things when using the wine font substitutes? Are they supposed to be there as a normal IDA behavior?

No, they are not, at least not that I would be aware of.

Now I have installed courie32.exe and a first test shows
everything being in order. No control characters disturbing.

Well, that font thingie did it. Many thanks to all for your rapid
help.

Bye, bye

Juergen