John, Thanks much for your quick response. Here is what I did I took the command from the icon on desktop (right click -> properties and copied command) and backgrounded the process and captured the log Here is the log more log.compizenable.txt fixme:font:WineEngAddFontResourceEx Ignoring flags 10 fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e9c0,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),1,0x32e9c0,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e43c,0x00000000), stub! fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to Set DepthStencilSurface 2009-05-19 15:34:12,396 INFO Display Message: Your computers screen resolution i s set to 1280 x 1024. It is recommended that <new line> a resolution of 1024 x 7 68 be used to best simulate the testing experience. fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x31bb258): semi-stub fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to Set DepthStencilSurface The screen froze as usual and I had to hard boot, but then I disabled compiz and set the resolution as suggested. Ran it again from the Command line and now the computer does not freeze and the program starts and is running. I dont see any thing except a grey window in which the program is supposed to run more log.txt fixme:font:WineEngAddFontResourceEx Ignoring flags 10 fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e9c0,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),1,0x32e9c0,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e43c,0x00000000), stub! fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to Set DepthStencilSurface fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to Set DepthStencilSurface fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x305e0a0): semi-stub fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW fixme:imm:ImeHandleNotify WM_IME_NOTIFY:IMN_SETCOMPOSITIONWINDOW The fixme messages seem to be features that are not supported or bugs. lspci |grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.10 \n \l
