[Wine] Extremely Random FireFox under Wine issue.

[Edward Savage]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:26 PM, dimesio <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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> MrMarkeh wrote:
>> Okay, so I just ran FireFox under wine, and I've just had the most weirdest Wine experience in my life..
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>> Heres what happened, I opened the browser, and suddenly - my screen goes black. And I'm returned to the Ubuntu start screen in seconds.
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>> Can someone explain to me how I am suppose to debug THAT?
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>> Code:
>> mark at ubuntu:~$ wine --version
>> wine-1.1.43
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>> Ubuntu 9.10 (Update manager has no updates) .
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> Is your graphics driver nVidia 185.18.14? Changes to winex11 in 1.1.43 exposed a bug in that driver, and possibly others. If your card is nVidia, upgrading to 195.36.15 will solve it. If your graphics card is from some other manufacturer, upgrade to their latest driver, and if that doesn't fix it, file a bug with them.
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This has been reported by several Steam users in the last few days.

I had it happen in Heroes of Newerth (native) today as well so I'm not
sure it is strictly Wine related as only Ubuntu 9.10 users have been
complaining.