xterm needs reset, no output

[jjbuddmd at swbell.net]

lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 jjbuddmd at swbell.net wrote:
>
> > I have attempted to get wine functioning for several days
> > but have been having no output recognizable as a windows
> > program, rather the terminal acts much as though the output
> > was that of a cat of a binary file and requires a reset to
> > become useful again. I am running Slack 7.1 on 2.2.18 on a
> > dual celeron machine using XFree86 4.0.2. All other programs
> > are functioning normally.  I have used precompiled binaries
> > and compiled from source with no change in behavior.
> > Any ideas?   John
> >
> Well, it doesn't look like a cat of a binary file, but I can get wine to
> spew badly formatted fixme's and leave an xterm in need of a reset by
> changing ~/.wine/config to include:
> [wine]
> "GraphicsDriver" = "ttydrv"
>
> ttydrv is still not ready to handle graphics, so you might have better
> luck to set
>
> [wine]
> "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
>
> I didn't know you could do that to an xterm, but I guess you can.
>
> Lawson
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Your knowledge is commendable.  The change fixed the problem completely.
Thanks,  JJB