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

Eric P eric.maillist at gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 18:13:37 CST 2007


Declan Moriarty wrote:
> 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.

All my farting wax Xorg/video card related.

Eric




More information about the wine-users mailing list