Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On 5/25/07, richardvoigt at gmail.com <richardvoigt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
> > Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've noticed quite a few reports from users
> > complaining about Wine deadlocking their system - keyboard unresponsive,
> > with no solution but to restart the entire computer.
>
> I've had the keyboard stop responding... often... with a particular
> game.  I have to go find the link to it.

It's "Galactic Dream: Rage of War" demo/preview.  Free download, make
it easy(-ier) to reproduce.

http://www.rageofwar.net/


>
> >
> > Sometimes users report this problem after running ANY Wine process -
> > even winecfg.
> >
> > I'm not sure what's causing the issue.  At first I thought it was a
> > hardware thing (perhaps ATI's infamously terribly drivers), but would
>
> But I have a PCI Geforce 6200.
>
> > that still prevent winecfg from working?  Wine is a user-level process,
> > it shouldn't be able to cause a hardlock under any circumstances, right?
>
> Definitely agreeing with that.  Trying to convince my management that
> the blue screen of death triggered by my Windows program is also not
> my bug for the same reason.
>
> >
> > Anyone else seen these kinds of reports?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott Ritchie
> >
> >
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