[Wine]winecfg

[Holly Bostick]

L.Marvell wrote:
> Hello, Holly Bostick!
> 
> Yes I have ATI Radeon 9200. So I don't understand, UseDGA=N can help
> or not? I cannot try right now because I'm at work.
> 
> 
> Thanks

Firstly, please remember to use "Reply to All" when replying to this 
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(which doesn't help anyone else on the list to know the answer to your 
question).

Secondly, yes, UseDGA=N should stop the "monitor turns off when I try to 
run any Wine program" from happening. It did for me.

I'm sorry to have confused you, all I meant to check is whether you also 
had an ATI card. ATI's DGA is known to be broken, and I was advised over 
a year ago to turn DGA off in my Wine config when using an ATI card 
(although this "monitor turning off" thing is new; this is not the same 
error that I used to get when I was advised not to use DGA with an ATI 
card).

I was just mentioning that in my history of using Wine with this card (a 
9600SE), I had thought that ATI fixed something, because I was able to 
set UseDGA=Y (for a change) and have programs run 'normally' under Wine. 
However, whatever ATI had briefly fixed they broke again and much worse, 
because now not only does setting DGA=Y not work (again) with the last 
two revisions of the drivers, the failure is much worse than when it was 
originally broken (before, if I set DGA=Y, programs used to try to run 
and fail, but my monitor didn't lose signal and go into some freaky 
standby mode that takes a hard reboot to fix, which is what it does now 
if I set DGA to yes).

Since you also have an ATI card, if setting UseDGA=N does solve the 
problem (or does not), please make sure to let us know, so that the Wine 
FAQ can be updated to include a general warning to ATI users to make 
sure to set UseDGA=N, so no one else has to get scared out of a year's 
growth thinking that their PC has blown up or something :-) .

Holly