Wine config screen

jerlinux · Post by **jerlinux** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:45 am

I can't believe that I am the only person this has happened to.
I went to the faq page and found a situation that sounded right but I am
still doing something wrong.

If anybody can tell me how I can make this screen readable, I would be
very grateful.

I am running wine 1.7 I THINK. It is hard to read any of the info that
the program is sending me. The programs that I run in wine seem to work
although you have to remember where the choices were - there is no way
to read the drop downs.

Here is my wine config screen:

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Jerry Linux
Woodhaven, Mi
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Post by **dimesio** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:26 am

jerlinux wrote:I can't believe that I am the only person this has happened to.
I went to the faq page and found a situation that sounded right but I am
still doing something wrong.

If anybody can tell me how I can make this screen readable, I would be
very grateful.

I am running wine 1.7 I THINK. It is hard to read any of the info that
the program is sending me. The programs that I run in wine seem to work
although you have to remember where the choices were - there is no way
to read the drop downs.

I think you must mean 1.1.7. You can check by typing wine --version in the terminal.

There is definitely something wrong with your setup. Rename your ~/.wine to something else, then run winecfg from the terminal. A new ~/.wine will automatically be created. If the display appears normal for the fresh wineprefix, then something you installed in the old one borked the display settings.

Vincent Povirk · Post by **Vincent Povirk** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:28 am

If renaming ~/.wine doesn't work, I suggest you upgrade to 1.1.8.

If upgrading doesn't help, file a bug. This is not a common problem,
and you're more likely to reach developers on the bugzilla.

Vincent Povirk

fr00gYl · Post by **fr00gYl** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:24 pm

I too am suffering from the same problem. I have two computers, a laptop and a desktop. On both I have recently done fresh installs of Ubuntu 8.10. and Wine 1.1.8. The laptop, an old Toshiba, has no problems with font tearing in Wine. However the desktop exhibits the same problem as 'jerlinux'. I have tried different display drivers, font settings in 'System/Preferences/Appearance/' and removing and reinstalling Wine. No luck

. Alas I have no idea what comes next.

jerlinux · Post by **jerlinux** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:46 pm

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 18:24 -0600, fr00gYl wrote:

I too am suffering from the same problem. I have two computers, a laptop and a desktop. On both I have recently done fresh installs of Ubuntu 8.10. and Wine 1.1.8. The laptop, an old Toshiba, has no problems with font tearing in Wine. However the desktop exhibits the same problem as 'jerlinux'. I have tried different display drivers, font settings in 'System/Preferences/Appearance/' and removing and reinstalling Wine. No luck [Crying or Very sad] . Alas I have no idea what comes next.

I can tell you that the fix in the FAQ section of winehq under 6.18 does
not work. Unless I have done it wrong. But I don't get any errors and
still cannot even see enough of the wine screens to do an uninstall.

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Jerry Linux
Woodhaven, Mi

spudpcker · Post by **spudpcker** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:12 pm

ok this sounds dumb because I detest the idea of uninstalling and reinstalling a driver all the time but I just uninstalled the driver for my nvidia mx4000 and rebooted. the wine config and the wine windows now have text. the problem has something to do with the nvidia driver and wine. I wonder if I can set up a second login acct that uses the nvidia driver and one that don't for wine stuff and switch between them? it may be an option.

this may also be a amd64 thing, i have the 64 vers of os

nvidia gforce mx4000
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid
asus a8v deluxe mobo /w all the goodies
amd 64 processor

fr00gYl · Post by **fr00gYl** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:37 pm

Spudpcker is right. It is an NVidia fault. Last time I just unloaded the Nvidia driver with the 'System/Hardware Drivers' tool and still had the problem. Now I have done a cold restart afterward and lo and behold no problem. I have an old MX400 card running the version 96 NVidia driver. Fortunately I'm not running any 3D intensive software (games) on this old machine but it would be good to know it will be resolved for when I get my next machine.

jerlinux · Post by **jerlinux** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:06 am

Is there a way to unload the nVidia driver only for wine?

If I unload the driver with the system hardware driver, will I not loose
the ability to run 1024 X 768 in Ubuntu?

I was hoping that there was some setting on the nVidia software that
would allow me to only use it on certain applications.

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:37 -0600, fr00gYl wrote:

Spudpcker is right. It is an NVidia fault. Last time I just unloaded the Nvidia driver with the 'System/Hardware Drivers' tool and still had the problem. Now I have done a cold restart afterward and lo and behold no problem. I have an old MX400 card running the version 96 NVidia driver. Fortunately I'm not running any 3D intensive software (games) on this old machine but it would be good to know it will be resolved for when I get my next machine.

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Jerry Linux
Woodhaven, Mi

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:32 pm

jerlinux wrote:Is there a way to unload the nVidia driver only for wine?

No. But you can start Wine in the totally separate X server with different display driver.
See for example http://wiki.winehq.org/256ColorsWorkarounds

jerlinux · Post by **jerlinux** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:57 pm

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 12:32 -0600, vitamin wrote:

jerlinux wrote:
Is there a way to unload the nVidia driver only for wine?
No. But you can start Wine in the totally separate X server with different display driver.
See for example http://wiki.winehq.org/256ColorsWorkarounds

Xinit

Of course you can use just plain ol' X. In some cases Xinit won't work
(no permissions to launch X server as regular user). Either Xephyr or
VNC will need to be used in these cases.

cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/My game/"
xinit /usr/bin/wine "my game.exe" -- :1 -ac -depth 8

I liked the plain ol part of this so I gave it a shot. Did not load
xinit since it did not say that I would have to do that.

Got a user is not authorized to run the x server error.

Can you tell that I am a real beginner? What part did I screw up? Does
this have to be run sudo? From all the messages I get on this list,
sudo seems like something I could use to really hurt myself so I do not
run it unless I am completely sure that it will help. Or is this the
some cases in which xinit won't work?

Thanks

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Jerry Linux
Woodhaven, Mi

walt · Post by **walt** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:39 pm

Jerry Linux wrote:

...
Got a user is not authorized to run the x server error.

Can you tell that I am a real beginner? What part did I screw up? Does
this have to be run sudo? From all the messages I get on this list,
sudo seems like something I could use to really hurt myself so I do not
run it unless I am completely sure that it will help. Or is this the
some cases in which xinit won't work?

If you start X using startx, it will create an authorization 'cookie'
in your home directory, otherwise xdm/gdm/kdm will do it. The startx
scripts may be very different between linux distributions, so have a
look at the startx on your machine to see what they do with xauth.

jerlinux · Post by **jerlinux** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:10 am

I don't know how I overlooked this suggestion last week but a review of
my problem on Sunday morning uncovered this tip.

When I rename wine and run the config in the terminal I get the same
fried screen. I have deleted the folder .wine that was created 5
minutes ago and returned my old .wine folder to its rightful place but
we now know that neither the upgrade to 1.1.8 or the rerun of the config
helps.

Is there anybody out there familiar with the nVidia set up screens?
Maybe there is something to be gained by messing around with some of
those settings????

I am lost at the bakery.
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 09:26 -0600, dimesio wrote:

jerlinux wrote:
I can't believe that I am the only person this has happened to.
I went to the faq page and found a situation that sounded right but I am
still doing something wrong.

If anybody can tell me how I can make this screen readable, I would be
very grateful.

I am running wine 1.7 I THINK. It is hard to read any of the info that
the program is sending me. The programs that I run in wine seem to work
although you have to remember where the choices were - there is no way
to read the drop downs.

I think you must mean 1.1.7. You can check by typing wine --version in the terminal.

There is definitely something wrong with your setup. Rename your ~/.wine to something else, then run winecfg from the terminal. A new ~/.wine will automatically be created. If the display appears normal for the fresh wineprefix, then something you installed in the old one borked the display settings.

--
Jerry Linux
Woodhaven, Mi

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:45 am

jerlinux wrote: Is there anybody out there familiar with the nVidia set up screens?
Maybe there is something to be gained by messing around with some of
those settings????

This is a problem specific to Ubuntu 8.10 and the nVidia drivers. There are already bug reports for it.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16146
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ ... bug/300476

robbie d · Post by **robbie d** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:18 am

add me too, to this list. But my garbled text only appears when I hover over things. Im trying to set up some programs and I cant even read the setup screens.