[Wine] New video card; wine freezing

[James McKenzie]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:41 AM, zBrain <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to play Eve Online in Wine. It was working (mostly) on my old card, a GTX 280, using the nvidia driver. It was the 3rd card I've had from Nvidia
> in a row with manufacturing defects, so I bought a Radeon 6870, which is working good except with Wine. I am using fglrx, and have a dual head
> setup using xrandr.
>
> When I log in, I get to the screen where it is entering the game after I click to select my character, the bar gets to about 75% and my screen stops
> updating. The computer will respond to ACPI shutdown via the soft power button, the cursor moves, and I can see HDD activity, so it is not totally
> frozen, but I can not see any updates to the screen.
>
> I have UseFastTLS set to 2 in xorg.conf as per http://wiki.winehq.org/fglrx, and tried several different compilation options with Wine, and still get the
> same behavior. Compiling with threads off failed for me, so I don't know if that is part of it.
>
> My first question is how should I start Wine to capture useful debug output to a file? Once the issue triggers I have to reboot, so this is my only real
> option at this point.
>
The Wine FAQ details how to capture to a log file.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

James McKenzie