[Wine] Ubuntu 7.10 Wine Issue

[James Hawkins]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:05 PM, TheGuyWhoGotOn
<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>  vitamin wrote:
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>  > TheGuyWhoGotOn wrote:
>  > > I can install Wine fine but whenever I try to use anything that associates with Wine (Running an exe, changing settings, ext) my computer just locks up forcing me to restart, I can't even move the mouse, and the clock even stops working on my computer.
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> > > I was wondering what I could do to fix this because I need Wine or I have to use my slow assed Windows computer. Thanks :).
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>  > Usually that indicates incorrectly installed or bad video or sound drivers. By definition Wine is a user program and should not lockup/crash your system, unless you are running as root.
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>  Well I used to have Windows on this computer and everything worked fine...Everything works fine except Wine for me so far as well...Ok I'm not sure if Wine is in the root this is all I did:
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There is a huge difference between hardware and drivers.  Hardware is
the same between Operating Systems, but the drivers are different.  In
the case of Linux, you probably have buggy drivers.

-- 
James Hawkins