<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:24 PM, kynan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wineforum-user@winehq.org">wineforum-user@winehq.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey everyone!<br>
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I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 w/ ALSA and the Ubuntu-packaged ATI Catalyst driver for my ATI X1700.<br>
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My problem is that I'll be playing CounterStrike or Half-Life or BrainBread for maybe 2 minutes if I'm lucky, and then suddenly my computer locks up. I get to hear the same 1-second slice of in-game sound over and over again and the screen stays frozen. In CS:CZ, it seems that sometimes the game will lock up my computer as soon as I finish joining a server, or a few seconds afterward.<br>
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Another fun thing to note - if I happen to be watching a video while playing the game and the game doesn't have control of my mouse - when my computer locks up, I can still move my mouse cursor around and hear the video, but the screen is still frozen (except for mouse cursor) and I get to hear that slice of in-game sound repeated over and over.<br>
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When it's locked up, Ctrl+Alt+Bksp does not work, and the only way to escape the situation is a hard shutdown by holding the power button down.<br>
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One more thing, with CS:CZ, I usually get to play for a couple minutes on my own server, whereas I might get one or two seconds on an internet server before my computer locks up.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>I'm not so sure how to fix the freezing but if you hit Ctrl + Alt + one of the "F" keys you can try to log-in on a different session and try to kill the process instead of hard booting. I think you'll have to set your computer to boot in run level 3 to do this though. I'm not so sure how to do this in ubuntu<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>"Black holes are where god divided by Zero."<br>
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