Spontaneous loss of control and system freeze.

[msimpson]

This is basically a copy-and-paste from the forums at Steam Powered. And since I have no exact error pinning down where this issue is occurring, I don't see the point in filing a bug report. So below you will find my issue explanation and here's the original thread: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... p=32444872

With any source game under WINE, be it in ten minutes or two hours, I will suddenly experience a complete loss of keyboard and mouse control followed by an X hard lock. What's weird is I will continue moving forward in-game as if the last input is stuck; right until the hard lock occurs. Also, there are no apparent errors. I've logged X through a pipe and over SSH. Watched all of my system stats, even hard drive head unloads. Nothing is reported. The only way I've found to recover is to SSH in, kill X, and start a new instance. That will return input control. However any further gameplay only results in a quicker lockup. And, switching to any virtual terminal after the first occurrence throws a red screen of death.

So given the above and that this issue seemed to arise just after the most recent kernel and nvidia driver updates, I suspect it's the drivers themselves. Although I've waited now through three proprietary releases, and still no resolution. Native OpenGL games and video playback have been completely fine, in contrast. And after the latest 304.43 drivers, the issue seems to happen more often.

SPECS:
Arch Linux 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 670] (rev a1)
ASUS Rampage IV Gene | Intel i7-3930K | 32GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz
WINE 1.5.12 and NVIDIA throughout 302.17, 304.32, 304.37, and 304.43

[DanKegel]

Yeah, it's probably a video driver bug. Not sure how much we can help.

If we're all lucky, Valve's recent interest in native Linux gaming will help focus
more love on Linux graphics drivers in general, and problems like this will
either get fixed, or some other vendor with better drivers will take over the market.

[t1nk3r3r]

I second the video driver suspicion. I had the same issue. See: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14394
Since moved to open-source drivers-- Knowing that while 3D may not be on par, at least fixes are more expedient.

[bugaboo]

I experience same problem, and I have 2 linux distros, Ubuntu(wine 1.4-ubuntu4.1, nvidia-current 304.60) and Gentoo(wine 1.5.5, nvidia-drivers 304.37). Freeze happens only in Gentoo. I played only in Counter Strike 1.6.

[dimesio]

The obvious thing to try is to upgrade your video driver on Gentoo.

[bugaboo]

I upgraded nvidia-drivers to 310.19 and xserver to 1.13 and haven't been able to reproduce this problem. Everything looks ok.