Wine & Intel 945 : hangs when switching between X &

WJM · Post by **WJM** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:30 am

Hi All,

I have been running WINE quite contently for the last year & think it is an amazing product!

There is one thing though that is quite bugging and I would like to share to see if others also have this experience and we can maybe fix..

On my laptop (it has an Intel 945 GM video chipset) I'm having problems when using WINE. Not with WINE itself but more with system stability.

When having run (or running) a WINE application, as long as I stay in the X session all is fine and there are no issues what so ever.
But when I switch to the console <ALT><F1> , try to shutdown or put the laptop in standby the video freezes and my system locks up. Green and white lines on the top.

It's taken me some time to see the relation with WINE because it does not always go wrong.
The video problem only happens when I am using or have run some application with WINE. So I'm quite certain the problem is related to the Intel & WINE combination. Also when I don't use WINE related stuff shutdown, reboot and switching to the console goes normally. No hang then...

Also running winecfg often abruptly crashes the current X session and brings me back to the login screen.

I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 which uses the new Intel driver & WINE version 9.56

I do have compiz-fusion enabled but have also disabled it to see if WINE was having trouble with it. But the problems still occur when running a 'normal' desktop without compiz.

Anyone else having this issue?

Cheers,
Wj

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:57 am

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:30 AM, WJM <[email protected]> wrote:

On my laptop (it has an Intel 945 GM video chipset) ...
when I switch to the console <ALT><F1> , try to shutdown or
put the laptop in standby the video freezes and my system locks up.
Green and white lines on the top....
Also running winecfg often abruptly crashes the current X session and brings me back to the login screen.
I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 which uses the new Intel driver & WINE version 9.56

This is not a wine bug; wine's merely a way to expose it.
It is a video driver bug.
Please go talk to Suse about it.
Let us know what happens.
- Dan

WJM · Post by **WJM** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:18 am

This is not a wine bug; wine's merely a way to expose it.
It is a video driver bug.
Please go talk to Suse about it.
Let us know what happens.
- Dan

I did not intend to say that it was necessarily a WINE bug and am trying to find out if others here have similair issues to share ideas and hopefully get it fixed.
I have found similair issues mentioned in other forums (non SUSE) so it's a hard one to put the finger on what exactly is causing this.

So far WINE is the only thing that 'exposes' the problem so thats why I'm trying to get some help and ideas here and also hope to help other identify this.

I will drop a bug report at OpenSUSE and let you know how that goes...

Cheers & Regards,

Wj

Mark Knecht · Post by **Mark Knecht** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:30 am

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:18 AM, WJM <[email protected]> wrote:

This is not a wine bug; wine's merely a way to expose it.
It is a video driver bug.
Please go talk to Suse about it.
Let us know what happens.
- Dan
I did not intend to say that it was necessarily a WINE bug and am trying to find out if others here have similair issues to share ideas and hopefully get it fixed.
I have found similair issues mentioned in other forums (non SUSE) so it's a hard one to put the finger on what exactly is causing this.

So far WINE is the only thing that 'exposes' the problem so thats why I'm trying to get some help and ideas here and also hope to help other identify this.

I will drop a bug report at OpenSUSE and let you know how that goes...

Cheers & Regards,

Wj

If this is a kernel video driver? If so why not contact the individual
or team responsible for that driver and see if you can get them
involved. I suspect they'd be quite responsive to a good bug report.

Just an idea,
Mark

Anurag Mishra · Post by **Anurag Mishra** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:42 am

BTW, how 'new' is your driver? If you don't compile drivers by hand and load
modules to the kernel, chances are you are using at least 6 month old
version of Intel driver.

Side quote: As Dan pointed out, no project would take responsibility of
"open-sourced" intel driver, so don't think seriously that your problem
would be sorted out in anything less than 6 months.

Cheers,
Anurag

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:48 PM, WJM <[email protected]> wrote:

This is not a wine bug; wine's merely a way to expose it.
It is a video driver bug.
Please go talk to Suse about it.
Let us know what happens.
- Dan
I did not intend to say that it was necessarily a WINE bug and am trying
to find out if others here have similair issues to share ideas and hopefully
get it fixed.
I have found similair issues mentioned in other forums (non SUSE) so it's
a hard one to put the finger on what exactly is causing this.

So far WINE is the only thing that 'exposes' the problem so thats why I'm
trying to get some help and ideas here and also hope to help other identify
this.

I will drop a bug report at OpenSUSE and let you know how that goes...

Cheers & Regards,

Wj

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WJM · Post by **WJM** » Sat May 10, 2008 1:16 am

This is not a wine bug; wine's merely a way to expose it.
It is a video driver bug.
Please go talk to Suse about it.
Let us know what happens.
- Dan

Just wanted to let you know that I solved my issue bij updating Xorg to version 7.3 (openSUSE 10.3 is shipped with 7.2). I've been running a month now without a single glitch.
So it seems the problem is a combination of xorg 7.2 my intel chipset.

Thanks,
Wj