HalfLife on latest CVS
David Bronaugh
dbronaugh at linuxboxen.org
Wed Oct 2 15:13:07 CDT 2002
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 20:29:48 +0100 (BST)
Michael Pacey <michael at wd21.co.uk> wrote:
> Whilst bored I purchased HalfLife for Windows, having read people mention on
> Slashdot that it runs on Wine.
>
> I run Debian (woody) on an AMD Athlon 1.4GHz machine with 1Gb RAM as my desktop.
> It currently has a Voodoo3 video card, though I have a dual head Radeon which
> I'm going to use once I get a monitor that is compatible (my current monitor has
> a very wavy display with that card).
>
> I installed Debian's Wine packages and went through the half life install
> without event. Running HL proved to be dreadfully slow. I read the Linux HL faq
> and wondered whether the Debian Wine was compiled with GL support. I remove the
> Debian Wine and checked out the CVS. HalfLife now freezes after drawing the
> first menu option with this error:
>
> err:win32:_EnterSysLevel (0x407afb38, level 2): Holding 0x4084cc04, level 3.
> Expect deadlock!
> fixme:reg:RegFlushKey (c4): stub
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x41ab808c)->(00000000,00000008)
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x4042bf94)->(00000000,00000008)
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x4042bf94)->(00000000,00000013)
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x4042bf94)->(00000000,00000008)
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x4042bf94)->(00010021,00000013)
> fixme:dc:LockWindowUpdate (10021), stub!
> fixme:dc:LockWindowUpdate (0), stub!
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x4042bf94)->(00000000,00000008)
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel (0x4042bf94)->(00010021,00000013)
> wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...
>
> Tried as a normal user and as root.
> I downloaded the mesa demos (gears etc) to test my hardware acceleration, gears
> works just fine - 200 fps.
Erm, my machine sucks, and glxgears gets about 475 fps. TNT2, K6-III/550.
Something's borko with your 3D accel, though I know Debian doesn't enable OpenGL on WINE.
David Bronaugh
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