[Wine] Prey and OpenGL

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue May 27 10:49:33 CDT 2008


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:06 AM, crow_se <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> I downloaded and installed the ATI drivers 8.40.4-2pclos2007
> from Synaptic. They completely screwed my system.
> I had no window decorations, I lost all virtual desktops and the mouse
> buttons did not have any affect in any window, compiz-fusion also did not work.
> I could not run any configuration program to try and sort it because of the mouse problem.
> I could not run Synaptic to uninstall the driver. Starting in safe mode and then using startx still gave the same problems.
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> I eventually recovered the system, but I dont think I will try Prey again,
> I will keep my Windows XP for gaming.
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ATI drivers are known to be sketchy...FWIW, you should disable compiz
before using wine...they conflict over graphics.



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