Unfortunatly, ATI's drivers are somewhat lacking in the DGA area. Try setting "UseDGA" to "N" in your wine .config's x11drv section. Should fix the problem easily :) - Ender On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 00:13, motub@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
