On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 12:44 -0800, Gus Wirth wrote: > Summary: wine apps with nvidia video drivers cause a black screen > > System: > Abit KT7A > Athlon XP1800 > 1GB RAM > nVidia GeForce4 MX440 AGP 64MB > Fedora Core 5 with latest updates > Xorg 7.0 > Screen set to 1280x1024, 24 bit color > > Details: > I have a problem where all my wine apps, including all the ones that > come with wine like winecfg, notepad, etc, cause the whole screen to go > black when they have the focus. However, the cursor still shows up and > will change shape from pointer to text insert (vertical bar) when moved > over the (now invisible) various apps on the screen. The focus can be > taken away from the wine app by using Alt-Tab which will restore the > screen except for the wine app, which will still be all black but with > the border created by the window manager being visible. When given back > the focus by clicking with the mouse, the whole screen will turn black > again. > > This problem occurs with both the open-source nv driver and the > proprietary nvidia driver. This does NOT happen with the VESA driver, so > the problem seems to be isolated to the nvidia drivers. > > Tested versions of wine are: > 0.9.24 from Fedora 5 extras > 0.9.27 from Fedora 5 extras > 0.9.30 built using the spec file from 0.9.27 with a slight teak for the > change in number > 0.9.30 compiled from scratch > > ALL of these versions of wine fail. > Changing resolutions to 1024x768 or 800x600 has no effect. > Changing desktop from KDE to GNOME has no effect. > > My video card is a nVidia GeForce4 MX440 AGP. > The pertinent line from my Xorg.0.log file shows my card: > > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] rev > 193, Mem @ 0xe8000000/24, 0xe4000000/26 > > There is nothing showing up in my Xorg.0.log file to show any problems. > > No other applications have this problem, only those that use wine. > > When running winecfg with the environment variable WINEDEBUG=warn+all, I > get lots of warnings about files not being found but it seems that they > eventually are because multiple paths are being searched for the same > file, plus some warnings about fonts. The strange errors are things like > this: [SNIP] > > which show up right before the app terminates. Note that the app runs > but I terminate it using the close button provided by the window manager. > > About half the time when exiting X after running a wine app and having > it fail, the X server is unable to restore the console and the system > must be rebooted to restore console operation. > > Any ideas where I should start looking to troubleshoot this problem? I have a very similar setup (XP-2.6, 1 Gig, Nvidia MX440, FC5) and running notepad works. I do get the black screen effect you mention from things like the java install programs. It's better behaved when you are winxp or win2003 and worse as earlier versions. I have gathered from installing the same thing in wine and m$ windoze that some windows are not drawn by my system. The MX-440 is not a great video card - I was _given_ mine and they are outdated. If you have reverted to the vesa driver, all bets are off on getting a working system, as apparently Fedora have had to do some careful tweaking to get nvidia drivers going. They have a doc up in the ether on how to change video drivers. What does 'glxgears' show? My system shows 11125 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2224.880 FPS, and 'glxinfo' says I have direct rendering. I will mail you the output separately of glxinfo > file. If you run the same and diff them, you might spot something. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
