[Wine] X-Windows hangs while playing Tales of Pirates
Austin English
austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 12:00:55 CST 2008
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Marc <budalokkos at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that after some time playing, my X hang and I can't even
> close session with Ctrl+Alt+Tab or change it with Ctrl+Alt+F1 . It
> happens at an unknown moment, something between 1 minute and 30 minutes
> after starting the game. My only option is to start an ssh session from
> another computer and write down "killall game.exe". This command allows
> me to recover the functionality of my system and start again the game.
Sounds like buggy drivers. You could try the open source/vesa drivers
and see if you still have problems. Wine by definition as a user
process can't lockup the system (unless ran as root).
> My system is:
> -ATI X1600 with fglrx driver version 8.452.1.
> -Debian Lenny with KDE.
> -Wine 0.9.56 from sources
ATI is known for buggy drivers...
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