On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:24 PM, kynan <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey everyone! > > I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 w/ ALSA and the Ubuntu-packaged ATI Catalyst driver > for my ATI X1700. > > My problem is that I'll be playing CounterStrike or Half-Life or BrainBread > for maybe 2 minutes if I'm lucky, and then suddenly my computer locks up. I > get to hear the same 1-second slice of in-game sound over and over again and > the screen stays frozen. In CS:CZ, it seems that sometimes the game will > lock up my computer as soon as I finish joining a server, or a few seconds > afterward. > > Another fun thing to note - if I happen to be watching a video while > playing the game and the game doesn't have control of my mouse - when my > computer locks up, I can still move my mouse cursor around and hear the > video, but the screen is still frozen (except for mouse cursor) and I get to > hear that slice of in-game sound repeated over and over. > > When it's locked up, Ctrl+Alt+Bksp does not work, and the only way to > escape the situation is a hard shutdown by holding the power button down. > > One more thing, with CS:CZ, I usually get to play for a couple minutes on > my own server, whereas I might get one or two seconds on an internet server > before my computer locks up. > > > > I'm not so sure how to fix the freezing but if you hit Ctrl + Alt + one of the "F" keys you can try to log-in on a different session and try to kill the process instead of hard booting. I think you'll have to set your computer to boot in run level 3 to do this though. I'm not so sure how to do this in ubuntu -- "Black holes are where god divided by Zero." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080801/0a51a47f/attachment.htm
