wine 1.3.7 / crashes pulling linux desktop down ?

WhiteHawk · Post by **WhiteHawk** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:40 pm

I'm running the latest wine dev package. I've got a number of .exe programs that show installation complete. When clicking on finish button...both programs get so far as to briefly show their first display page, but then disappears taking the linux desktop down back to the desktop login page.

I've got an x86_64 amd64 system running Debian Squeeze, 32MB ram, terra byte HD.

My WINE is setup as the 32bit version.

I've checked the following:

directory permissions
tried various settings for windows setting.
installed various things using winetricks
updated the .NET program
gecko is installed

I do have two(2) windows programs working properly.

The program I really need to work is "MetaTrader" which
is a Forex program that was working prior to this upgrade
of wine.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem
might be ? .....and a possible solution. I've spent 2 weeks
trying to trouble shoot this problem.

Sincerely,

WhiteHawk

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:47 pm

WhiteHawk wrote: but then disappears taking the linux desktop down back to the desktop login page.

That's X crashing; Wine is a user-level app and can't do that by itself, but it can expose bugs in other things that can, such as your graphics driver. Try reinstalling your graphics driver, and make sure you have the necessary 32 bit parts.

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy · Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:22 am

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 05:40, WhiteHawk <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm running the latest wine dev package. I've got a number of .exe programs that show installation complete. When clicking on finish button...both programs get so far as to briefly show their first display page, but then disappears taking the linux desktop down back to the desktop login page.

I've got an x86_64 amd64 system running Debian Squeeze, 32MB ram, terra byte HD.

32 MB RAM?

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:50 am

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:40 PM, WhiteHawk <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm running the latest wine dev package. I've got a number of .exe programs that show installation complete. When
clicking on finish button...both programs get so far as to briefly show their first display page, but then disappears
taking the linux desktop down back to the desktop login page.

What kind of video card do you have in your computer? If it is an
nVidia/AMD/ATI card you will have to install the propriatery drivers
vice the open-source ones as the open source drivers are missing
pieces for running Wine. X desktop crashes are an indicator that this
may be what is happening. During the installation, please also select
the 32 bit extensions as you are using the 32 bit version of Wine.

James

WhiteHawk · Post by **WhiteHawk** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:02 pm

Hi FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy.....I really have 32MB of RAM...plus a dual core cpu chip.

My original motherboard croaked, and I built an entirely new system from scratch except for the tower case...and one smaller hd...and two dvd drives.

WhiteHawk

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:03 pm

WhiteHawk wrote:..I really have 32MB of RAM...plus a dual core cpu chip.

That's not enough to run any modern Linux distro.

WhiteHawk · Post by **WhiteHawk** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:40 pm

Hi dimesio,

Sorry...I mispoke...I have 32GB RAM...not 32MB. <g>

Video Card is ATI Radeon...and I have installed all
relevant drivers.

I'm still having the same problem with those two programs.

With the additional drivers installed...just in case...I'm re-compling
my WINE to see if anything changes.

Do you have anyother thoughts ?

WhiteHawk

WhiteHawk · Post by **WhiteHawk** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:21 pm

Well I'm out of ideas.

I've compiled, and install gcc-1.4.6 which is the latest.

I've re-compiled my WINE.

I've re-installed all required dependencies.

I've installed ATI Radeon Drivers.

I've updated to windows .NET 2

Still the closest the twp programs come to running is a connecting
to serve display page for 2 seconds...the program crashes taking down
my desktop back to the linux login screen.

I'm ready to give up unless anyone else has some suggestions.

WhiteHawk

WhiteHawk · Post by **WhiteHawk** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:30 pm

latest gcc is version gcc-4.5.2

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy · Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:23 pm

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 21:21, WhiteHawk <[email protected]> wrote:

Well I'm out of ideas.

Â I've compiled, and install gcc-1.4.6 which is the latest.

Â I've re-compiled my WINE.

Â I've re-installed all required dependencies.

Â I've installed ATI Radeon Drivers.

Â I've updated to windows .NET 2

Â Still the closest the twp programs come to running is a connecting
to serve display page for 2 seconds...the program crashes taking down
my desktop back to the linux login screen.

Â I'm ready to give up unless anyone else has some suggestions.

Have you tried with a fresh wineprefix? Most recent wine (1.4-rc1 to date)?

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:13 pm

WhiteHawk wrote: I've installed ATI Radeon Drivers.

Install the proprietary drivers, if they exist for your card. The symptoms you describe strongly suggest a buggy graphics driver.

WhiteHawk · Post by **WhiteHawk** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:10 am

I went out to the AMD website, and got the proprietary drivers for my HD4200 GPU. Took out all the Debian Squeeze drivers I had installed.

Once they were un-installed and I rebooted...naturally I had no graphics.

I dropped down to a root login, and ran the .run file from AMD with a sh command....then rebooted.

One program still takes down the desktop, but my Forex program did finally install, and launch. The forex program was the most important one.

I guess I'll just give up on the other one as one that just won't run on WINE.

Thanks for your help....I would have never figured I had to have the AMD proprietary drivers.

WhiteHawk