Compatibility regression after migrating to 64 bit Linux

[Leonardo Ferreira Font...]

[Now with CC to the list.]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:06:59 -0500, "Austin English"
<[email protected]> said:

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
<[email protected]> wrote:

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:56:37 -0500, "Austin English"
<[email protected]> said:

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM, John Drescher <[email protected]>
wrote: Believe it or not, they do exist .

Try running it on a single core, if this is a multi-core machine.

Thanks, Austin! I forgot to mention, but my last system had a single
core, and my current system has a dual core. Sorry for the noobness, but
how do I run Wine or the Windows application on a single core?

It's not particular to Wine, you do it the same way you would any
native application. It varies from distro to distro, however...

Thanks for the tip! But I tried "taskset -c 1 wine path/to/exe" and I
still have the same issue...

(Sorry for the long time; I didn't have my computer with me.)

[Leonardo Ferreira Font...]

It's been a long time, so I'll tell from the beginning again. I used to
run Wine on Arch Linux (and other GNU/Linux distributions before) with a
single-core, 32 bits Sempron. Then I moved to Ubuntu 64 bits, on a Core
2 Duo processor. I can still run winecfg fine, but now when I run a
Windows software with Wine many graphical elements get unrecognizable,
mainly text (which is major, since I used Wine mainly to run a
dictionary).

There's a dump at:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-us ... 51866.html

And I managed to upload an screenshot at:
http://leonardof.org/houaiss-com-defeito.png

I was told in this mailing list that it should not be a a 64 bits issue,
but a dual core issue. I tried "schedtool -a 1 -e wine path/to/exe" and
"taskset -c 1 wine path/to/exe" but got thesame behaviour.

Could anyone please help me figure this out?

Thanks!

[dimesio]

And I managed to upload an screenshot at:
http://leonardof.org/houaiss-com-defeito.png

Could be this: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8db18a5 ... 9cbf0a07a3

[James McKenzie]

dimesio wrote:

Leonardo Ferreira Font... wrote:

And I managed to upload an screenshot at:
http://leonardof.org/houaiss-com-defeito.png

Could be this: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8db18a5 ... 9cbf0a07a3

If he were using a NVida card, it could be. However, we don't know
which card the OP is using. Could be a bad driver installation, or a
poor quality (read INTEL) video card.

If it is an NVida card, get the latest video drivers and install them,
usually fixes this problem.

James McKenzie

[James McKenzie]

Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle wrote:

I'm using an onboard Intel GMA X4500HD (G45 chipset), driver
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9. If this might be fixed in the
2.7 version of the video driver, I would be willing to instal Arch Linux
on a sepparate partition and try wine on it.

Intel chipsets are notorious for providing poor Linux support. Wine is
one of those programs that will test the ability of these drivers.

[In my previous computer I used S3 Unichrome onboard and Nvidia FX 5200
offboard with either the nv or the nvidia drivers, without a problem.]

NVida on the other hand provides much better Linux support and Wine
functions much better.

I would suggest, if at all possible, using the NVida card if you still
have it.

James McKenzie

[Leonardo Ferreira Font...]

Em Sáb, 2009-06-06 às 13:31 -0700, James McKenzie escreveu:

Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle wrote:

I'm using an onboard Intel GMA X4500HD (G45 chipset), driver
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9. If this might be fixed in the
2.7 version of the video driver, I would be willing to instal Arch Linux
on a sepparate partition and try wine on it.

Intel chipsets are notorious for providing poor Linux support. Wine is
one of those programs that will test the ability of these drivers.

[In my previous computer I used S3 Unichrome onboard and Nvidia FX 5200
offboard with either the nv or the nvidia drivers, without a problem.]

NVida on the other hand provides much better Linux support and Wine
functions much better.

I would suggest, if at all possible, using the NVida card if you still
have it.

Thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of that. I can't use my old
NVIDIA card because it's for AGP slots, which my current motherboard
lacks. I'll try the new Intel driver and cross my fingers.

--
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle <[email protected]>

[Leonardo Ferreira Font...]

Solved!

Em Sáb, 2009-06-06 às 20:21 -0300, Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
escreveu:

Em Sáb, 2009-06-06 às 13:31 -0700, James McKenzie escreveu:

Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle wrote:

I'm using an onboard Intel GMA X4500HD (G45 chipset), driver
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9. If this might be fixed in the
2.7 version of the video driver, I would be willing to instal Arch Linux
on a sepparate partition and try wine on it.

Intel chipsets are notorious for providing poor Linux support. Wine is
one of those programs that will test the ability of these drivers.

[In my previous computer I used S3 Unichrome onboard and Nvidia FX 5200
offboard with either the nv or the nvidia drivers, without a problem.]

NVida on the other hand provides much better Linux support and Wine
functions much better.

I would suggest, if at all possible, using the NVida card if you still
have it.

Thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of that. I can't use my old
NVIDIA card because it's for AGP slots, which my current motherboard
lacks. I'll try the new Intel driver and cross my fingers.

While I was installing ArchLinux (which includes the latest Intel video
driver) and reading its documentation, I found out I'd rather install
the web/core/ms fonts. Eureka! I went back to Ubuntu, installed the
corresponding package, and now the Windows applications are working
fine!

Thank you all for helping me try to figure this out.