klaine8 wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:53 PM, kainisma <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi there > > im new at the whole thing of linux, and newer in Wine. > > I mostly use Wine to run World of Warcraft in Ubuntu 11.04 > > i finally got the game to run correctly, and with no sound/video problems. > > The only problem i'm having is that, sometimes, when im inside World of wrcraft, sometimes the pc freezes... not only the wine, or the game, but the whole computer. I cant do anything but shut down or restar the computer (manually ) then i turn on the computer and keep on playin or whatever... and maybe if im again on the game, maybe it frezes again... > > so... dunno... i was hoping if someone could help me. I've searched all over the internet and found nothing about this. Some ppl have a similar problem, that the game crashes or wine freezes... but it's not my case... the whole computer is freezing in my case... > > > > anyway, thank you very much > > > > > > I am learning Wine myself. But for the hanging. > > I am pretty sure Wine or the program running inside it does not hang > the computer - meaning kernel panic. The X (user interface) might > hang, which is as bad as computer hanging. > > You could try CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to get out. Then there is SysRq key > combinations which would allow you to cleanly reboot. Sorry don't > remember these - I have not had stability problems for years. > > Also a good way is to use ssh if you have two machines. Write down the > IP address of the machine before running Wine. When it hangs write ssh > <IP address> and it opens a shell to the hang machine. Then you can > reboot it cleanly. If your other machine is Windows google for putty. > It is a free ssh client for Windows. > > It just occurred to me that if you use closed source binary drivers > from Nvidia or ATI (AMD) then those drivers could hang the whole > machine causing kernel panic. And you are probably using them... > > I would also check memory of the machine. There is a free good test > program - was it memcheck+ or something. > > I would also check for the hard disk with manufacturers diagnostic program. > > If you know how to compile kernel, that's a good test. With option -j4 > for example. > > Sorry if this does not help. > > Best Regards > Kari > > > > -- > PICs, Displays,Relays - USB-SPI-I2C http://www.byvac.com > USB and FPGA boards http://www.ztex.de > > I am just a happy customer About that thing of ctrl-alt-backspace... i tried it. But really, the whole pc seems to freeze. i mean, i can't even turn on the "num lock" button in the keyboard... so i guess it just freezes the whole computer. I tried doing CTRL-C for wine , alt-tabbing, ctrl-alt-backspace and all those things but nothing happenned. As i said to bcpeterson recently, the computer is new, so i really doubt it's memory problem, or the hard disk or any hardware thing. About the video card driver... i really dont know what "closed source binary drivers" are... i think the driver i have is that one i showed to bcpeterson. However, i remember downloading something like fglrx or something like that, ... because when i was searching how to run WoW in wine, i read something about fglrx drivers, and i understood that those are like the "open source" drivers for ati ... (but i dont know, maybe im just really noob and missunderstood everything) about the "ssh" i could try it.. i have another computer, running same ubuntu but 32bit (i use 64bit)... so maybe i try it when it happens again :P
