[Wine] X-Windows hangs while playing Tales of Pirates

[Austin English]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Marc <budalokkos at gmail.com> wrote:
>  The problem is that after some time playing, my X hang and I can't even
>  close session with Ctrl+Alt+Tab or change it with Ctrl+Alt+F1 . It
>  happens at an unknown moment, something between 1 minute and 30 minutes
>  after starting the game. My only option is to start an ssh session from
>  another computer and write down "killall game.exe". This command allows
>  me to recover the functionality of my system and start again the game.

Sounds like buggy drivers. You could try the open source/vesa drivers
and see if you still have problems. Wine by definition as a user
process can't lockup the system (unless ran as root).

>  My system is:
>  -ATI X1600 with fglrx driver version 8.452.1.
>  -Debian Lenny with KDE.
>  -Wine 0.9.56 from sources

ATI is known for buggy drivers...