Hi, Short version of a long story: I used to run Wine with moderate success when I had a Matrox G400. Recently I upgraded to the above videocard. I run 4 different distros, but the only one I've been able to get the ATI drivers installed and working on is Mandrake 9.2, so for the purposes of this post, I use Mandrake 9.2. Here's the thing. Linux binaries run fine and look great. If I try to run Wine (so far I've tried 20031212,20040121 and WineX 3.2.1 from http://www003.portalis.it/115/ ), however, my monitor immediately does black and then to hardware standby (no signal). If I turn it back on, the little light above the BNC (/D-SUB) blinks, and I have no picture of any sort except a "widescreen" gray roiling nothingness. I cannot even open another X server with CTR:-ALT-F1 or logout with CTRL-ALT-Backspace (or if I can, I can't see it)-- I have to hard reset to get a monitor signal again. The program I'm using to test my Wine install is Double Deck Solitaire 95, which can be found at http://www.filelibrary.com/Contents/Windows/115/16.html (program # 578, ddsol95.zip). If anyone takes a look at this game, you'll see that it's not a rendering monster of any sort (which is why I use it to test with, aside from that I like it). Now I should say-- I do get a picture back eventually. Like sometime between 1.5 and 8 hours later. I don't know exactly how long, because I get tired of checking and go to bed, and when I get up and turn the monitor on and move the mouse, the desktop reappears-- with the game running. I can play it, and it's fine. But obviously I'm not going to try to run something more stressful for Wine under these circumstances. So far I have done the following with no effect: Tried different versions of Wine (and WineX) as above, but I have versions going back to 20030907, so if anyone thinks an older version (or compiling from source rather than using the MDK binaries) might not show this problem, please say; Rolled the ATI drivers back from 3.7.0 to 3.2.8, which I had heard people were able to use Wine with; Changed various settings in the drivers using fglrxconfig, up to and including turning off the "internal" AGPGART and using that of the installed kernel. About all that I haven't done is changed from 24bit to 16bit, or changed from firegl "wine compatibility mode" to "default" or "fast" (since this isn't a FireGL board, that setting is supposed to be ignored anyway). Transgaming has reported "some" problems with "the latest" ATI drivers (they didn't really specify much), but I did not expect the problem to be so severe, or to occur under regular Wine as well, or to occur with the old drivers. Is this a problem that can be hacked, patched or troubleshot? Is there something I can do to get Wine working? Or do I have to wait for ATI and/or Wine-devel and/or Transgaming to work out a solution? Thanks for any help or further information. Holly Bostick _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
