On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Federico <undicizeri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I all, > I'm using wine 1.1.14 and when I try to play any game all the system > crash and become unresponsive: I can't restart X with > ctrl+alt+backspace and the Sysrq magic key doesn't work. > Wine crashes in about 0 to 10 minutes EVERY time no matter which game > I'm playng. > I don't know if it is a wine, Xorg, Kernel or nvidia driver problem > but a month ago wine worked like a charm. I've tryed to compile wine > from git but the problem is the same. > Xorg.log, error.log, kernel.log, don't report anything strange. > When the system hangs there no way I can restart/reboot or do > anything, the only thing I can do is an hardware reset... and this > sucks very badly > There is a way I can test if the problem is related to xorg or wine or > whatever else? > The most likely causes are bad video card or bad video drivers. wine has no low level access to hardware so it has only a limited ability to lock up a system. John