Re[2]: [Wine]winecfg

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Hello, Holly Bostick!

Ok, thanks. Will try and tomorrow will post the result.

-- 
Best regards,
 L.Marvell                          mailto:marvell@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Вы писали 10 лютого 2005 р., 16:54:02:

HB> L.Marvell wrote:
>> Hello, Holly Bostick!
>> 
>> Yes I have ATI Radeon 9200. So I don't understand, UseDGA=N can help
>> or not? I cannot try right now because I'm at work.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks

HB> Firstly, please remember to use "Reply to All" when replying to this
HB> list, otherwise your reply only goes to the poster's personal mailbox
HB> (which doesn't help anyone else on the list to know the answer to your
HB> question).

HB> Secondly, yes, UseDGA=N should stop the "monitor turns off when I try to
HB> run any Wine program" from happening. It did for me.

HB> I'm sorry to have confused you, all I meant to check is whether you also
HB> had an ATI card. ATI's DGA is known to be broken, and I was advised over
HB> a year ago to turn DGA off in my Wine config when using an ATI card
HB> (although this "monitor turning off" thing is new; this is not the same
HB> error that I used to get when I was advised not to use DGA with an ATI
HB> card).

HB> I was just mentioning that in my history of using Wine with this card (a
HB> 9600SE), I had thought that ATI fixed something, because I was able to
HB> set UseDGA=Y (for a change) and have programs run 'normally' under Wine.
HB> However, whatever ATI had briefly fixed they broke again and much worse,
HB> because now not only does setting DGA=Y not work (again) with the last
HB> two revisions of the drivers, the failure is much worse than when it was
HB> originally broken (before, if I set DGA=Y, programs used to try to run
HB> and fail, but my monitor didn't lose signal and go into some freaky
HB> standby mode that takes a hard reboot to fix, which is what it does now
HB> if I set DGA to yes).

HB> Since you also have an ATI card, if setting UseDGA=N does solve the
HB> problem (or does not), please make sure to let us know, so that the Wine
HB> FAQ can be updated to include a general warning to ATI users to make
HB> sure to set UseDGA=N, so no one else has to get scared out of a year's
HB> growth thinking that their PC has blown up or something :-) .

HB> Holly
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