catalyst 8.6 + wine == screen corruption

[Sekra]

I am running Arch linux on my laptop and I installed wine a while back to check if one application I use would work with it or not. Well I couldnt get it running since it apparently uses MS .NET framework which doesnt seem to work very well with wine.

But to the issue at hand. Today I decided to try off another application, well okay a game actually, and I ran winecfg as normal user to re-make all the directories etc but then I ended up with a odd problem. My screen went crazy and when I took a screenshot after a while it looked like this:



when in reality what I would see on my screen is this (picture taken with my camera):



if I run winecfg AGAIN after restarting my X server with ctrl-alt-backspace it works fine and no trouble. BUT when I try to run the game I wanted to try, the game works but the screen is distorted again.

I tried reinstalling wine with no luck so the problem must lie somewhere else. I'm not a newbie with computers since I've fiddled around with them my whole life but I am rather new to linux.

I am running version 0.9.61 of wine since that is the current stable release in Arch linux repos. The odd thing is that a few weeks back when I installed wine for the first time it worked just fine.

So could someone please help me figure out what to do next to get wine working again so I can play Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress on my linux laptop too and not just on my windows desktop? Thank you for any advice you can give.


edit: changed the topic to refer what the real problem is

[vitamin]

So could someone please help me figure out what to do next to get wine working again so I can play Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress on my linux laptop too and not just on my windows desktop? Thank you for any advice you can give.

Try virtual desktop mode (winecfg->graphics tab). It might be the game selects display resolution your monitor does not support.

[Sekra]

well the problem occurs also when I run winecfg and if there is no .wine directory. But I tried that and it did not help. Again the screen goes crazy and it looks like there would actually be 2 desktops when the screen is "crazy" split right down the middle of my screen. Could wine for some strange reason think that I have a cloned or extended desktop since I did try to view videos via my TV a while back but it didnt work since I could only get B/W picture to my tv using a s-video cable..

[Sekra]

I tried uninstalling again the package from Arch linux repos and I installed from the 1.0 sources. Same thing happens again, when I run winecfg the screen goes haywire just the same...

[vitamin]

I tried uninstalling again the package from Arch linux repos and I installed from the 1.0 sources. Same thing happens again, when I run winecfg the screen goes haywire just the same...

Sounds like driver bug to me. What video card and drivers are you using?

[Sekra]

I have a laptop with Ati Mobility Radeon X1400 and using the latest package from Arch linux repos which is

http://archlinux.org/packages/317/

and ATI Catalyst Control Center says:

Driver version 8.50.3

edit: And indeed, when I first installed wine I was still using the earlier version Catalyst 8.5 under which wine worked without a problem. Just checked that from my logs..

[Sekra]

Looks like this has allready been posted at:

http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173

[thomas01155]

This also happens to me when i try to open guild wars. But when i take a screen shot and open it, it just looks normal.