Screen goes black when I start apps

tonybray · Post by **tonybray** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:42 pm

Everything was working fine, then after an update, it no longer works. I am using Fedora 7. I am unsure of the Wine version. Any of the Wine apps cause the screen to blank when I start them. I can press alt+f4 to close and get my Fedora desktop back. How do I get my Wine apps to work again?

--Tony

tonybray · Post by **tonybray** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:51 pm

When I tried notepad from the terminal, the screen went blank again but when I closed the app with alt+f4, I get this message:

wine notepad
err:winedevice:ServiceMain driver L"mrtRate" failed to load
fixme:spoolsv:serv_main (0 (nil))

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:55 pm

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:51 PM, tonybray <[email protected]> wrote:

When I tried notepad from the terminal, the screen went blank again but when I closed the app with alt+f4, I get this message:

wine notepad
err:winedevice:ServiceMain driver L"mrtRate" failed to load
fixme:spoolsv:serv_main (0 (nil))

What video card/drivers? Does
$ mv .wine .wine.bak
$ wine notepad
Fix the problem?
To get wine version, run:
$ wine --version

tonybray · Post by **tonybray** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:20 pm

I have version
wine-0.9.56

Here's something interesting... I restarted my system and tried notepad and it started fine. I closed the app and tried again and got the blank screen. I restarted again, and was able to launch notepad once. The second time leads to the blank screen.

--Tony

tonybray · Post by **tonybray** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:24 pm

I just tried:

$ mv .wine .wine.bak
$ wine notepad

No worky.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:36 pm

tonybray wrote:

I have version
wine-0.9.56

Here's something interesting... I restarted my system and tried notepad and it started fine. I closed the app and tried again and got the blank screen. I restarted again, and was able to launch notepad once. The second time leads to the blank screen.

Tony:

Can you go to the Fedora Core site and upgrade to Wine 0.9.57 and tell
us if this fixes the problem?

James McKenzie

tonybray · Post by **tonybray** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:50 pm

Sure, what site is that and how do I get to it? I have been doing updates via yum only.

--Tony

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:58 pm

tonybray wrote:

Sure, what site is that and how do I get to it? I have been doing updates via yum only.

You should be able to do yum -update wine and get the latest if I
remember the command under yum correctly (it has been a couple of years
since I touched yum.)

James

tonybray · Post by **tonybray** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:11 pm

I tried that already and yum reports no match for wine to update.

tonybray · Post by **tonybray** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:12 pm

BTW, it has been working fine for several months now. Only noticed tonight when I tried to start Quicken.

--Tony

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:02 am

tonybray wrote:

BTW, it has been working fine for several months now. Only noticed tonight when I tried to start Quicken.

So, other applications work fine? Please look at the AppDb for Quicken
solutions. If there is no solution to your problem, search Bugzilla for
a prior bug report. If there is no report, please file one.

James McKenzie

tonybray · Post by **tonybray** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:19 am

It doesn't matter which windows app I run first. It works once after a full restart and then that app or any other will not work again without getting the blank screen.

Note: I have been running quicken on Wine for 6 months without a hitch so I doubt it's a compatibility problem. Happens with Notepad from the system menu as well.

--Tony