cannot read words on any wine screen

[James McKenzie]

extra wrote:

im using the most recent version of ubuntu and i wanted to run WOW but i have been unable to even configure it due to a lack of text on the configure screen. when i change tabs there is a sudden flash of jumbled texts that immediately subsides. and i am using nvdia drivers for my graphics card.
here is what it looks like (title bar got cut off)
[Image: http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t50/ ... /bokwe.jpg ]

winetricks corefonts should fix this problem.

See the FAQ for how to obtain and run winetricks.

James McKenzie

[dimesio]

im using the most recent version of ubuntu and i wanted to run WOW but i have been unable to even configure it due to a lack of text on the configure screen. when i change tabs there is a sudden flash of jumbled texts that immediately subsides. and i am using nvdia drivers for my graphics card.
here is what it looks like (title bar got cut off)
[Image: http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t50/ ... /bokwe.jpg ]

Are you using the legacy nVidia driver? If so, that's a known bug in the driver. There's a workaround here: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16146