[Wine] Missing Text in Wine 1.1.12

[Austin English]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM, James Mckenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Sent: Jan 14, 2009 9:04 AM
>>To: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>>Cc: wine-users at winehq.org
>>Subject: Re: [Wine] Missing Text in Wine 1.1.12
>>
>>On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:47 AM, James Mckenzie
>><jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Have you consulted the Ubuntu fora about this?  It appears that some fonts or font handling software is missing from your installation of this distribution of Linux.  In other words this is not a Wine problems from what you state here.
>>>
>>> James Mckenzie
>>>
>>>
>>
>>It's an Nvidia driver bug, Ubuntu is _well_ aware of the issue.
>>
> Yuck!  And I thought that Nvidia was the way to go with Ubuntu Linux.  Do the Nvidia drivers fix this problem so that Wine will display properly?
>
> James McKenzie
>
>

The problem is in the Nvidia legacy drivers, so only older graphics
cards should be affected. Nvidia has acknowledged the problem, so
hopefully it'll be fixed in the next release. See:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16146 for more info.

-- 
-Austin