[Wine] Wine wants OpenGL for everything... then fails

Declan Moriarty junk_mail at iol.ie
Tue Jan 30 04:40:29 CST 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:15 -0600, Eric P wrote:
> Declan Moriarty wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 00:01 -0600, Eric P
>  wrote:  
>  Wine is hosed on my Ubuntu Edgy install. It was working fine
>  on Dapper, and I'm not sure if I tested Wine since  upgrading to
>  Edgy last month. Anyway, no matter what I try to run I get
>  something like this (running notepad in this example) and the program
>  fails to launch:
[SNIP]
> >> Any pointers would be very welcome.
> > 
> > Just guessing (I would have to) but I would check the xorg.conf or
> > XF86Config file and see what modules you are loading. Maybe one too few
> > or one too many.
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> I began digging around in my xorg.conf and checking some of my archived
>  versions.  I did see the "glx" module had been present in past files,
>  so I put that back in.  However, the programs ran w/Wine would all
>  freeze.
> 
> Actually, I fiddled around a lot (different video cards/config files),
>  so I'm not sure what I did but Wine is working again.  Sorry for
>  anyone who stumbles on this thread.
> 
> Thanks all the same,

If you farted about with X, and things work, that's fine. If you farted
about wine, people could benefit if you figure out what you did.
-- 
        With Best Regards,

        Declan Moriarty.




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