Wine always crash very badly

[Federico]

I all,
I'm using wine 1.1.14 and when I try to play any game all the system
crash and become unresponsive: I can't restart X with
ctrl+alt+backspace and the Sysrq magic key doesn't work.
Wine crashes in about 0 to 10 minutes EVERY time no matter which game
I'm playng.
I don't know if it is a wine, Xorg, Kernel or nvidia driver problem
but a month ago wine worked like a charm. I've tryed to compile wine
from git but the problem is the same.
Xorg.log, error.log, kernel.log, don't report anything strange.
When the system hangs there no way I can restart/reboot or do
anything, the only thing I can do is an hardware reset... and this
sucks very badly
There is a way I can test if the problem is related to xorg or wine or
whatever else?
I've tried to run the game trough winedbg but the result is the
same... catastrophic failure and hardware reset

I found also Google Earth made my pc to freeze.... Is the linux port
of google earth based on wine like picasa? If yes is still a problem
of Wine otherwise is something about Xorg/nvidia/kernel.
And why the hell the sysrq magic key doesn't work?
Thank you for your help

[John Drescher]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Federico <[email protected]> wrote:

I all,
I'm using wine 1.1.14 and when I try to play any game all the system
crash and become unresponsive: I can't restart X with
ctrl+alt+backspace and the Sysrq magic key doesn't work.
Wine crashes in about 0 to 10 minutes EVERY time no matter which game
I'm playng.
I don't know if it is a wine, Xorg, Kernel or nvidia driver problem
but a month ago wine worked like a charm. I've tryed to compile wine
from git but the problem is the same.
Xorg.log, error.log, kernel.log, don't report anything strange.
When the system hangs there no way I can restart/reboot or do
anything, the only thing I can do is an hardware reset... and this
sucks very badly
There is a way I can test if the problem is related to xorg or wine or
whatever else?

The most likely causes are bad video card or bad video drivers. wine
has no low level access to hardware so it has only a limited ability
to lock up a system.

John

[L. Rahyen]

There is a way I can test if the problem is related to xorg or wine or whatever else?

Since you are telling that SysRq keys don't work when your system crashes there is only two possibilities: NVidia driver bug or kernel bug. But since it is crashing when you are using OpenGL applications like Wine + games or Google Earth this is probably NVidia driver bug.
For me with 180.27 driver and GeForce 8600 GT everything works perfectly. If you are using older driver please upgrade. If still doesn't work you probably want to report your problem to NVidia. When reporting a bug to NVidia don't forget to run nvidia-bug-report.sh (this command will generate nvidia-bug-report.log for you so you can send it along with other information to NVidia).

wine
has no low level access to hardware so it has only a limited ability
to lock up a system.

Wine has *no* ability to lock up a system if you aren't running it as root. If you do then it can lockup your system (there is at least one real-world case I remember). So don't run it as root if you don't know what you are doing.

[Federico]

For me with 180.27 driver and GeForce 8600 GT everything works perfectly. If you are using older driver please upgrade. If still doesn't work you probably want to report your problem to NVidia. When reporting a bug to NVidia don't forget to run nvidia-bug-report.sh (this command will generate nvidia-bug-report.log for you so you can send it along with other information to NVidia).

I've just installed nvidia 180.29-beta and now all works fine Thank
you very much