[Wine] Re: Multiple Office 2007 Pro PowerPoint Windows Lock Up Laptop

hayhursm wineforum-user at winehq.org
Fri Apr 8 15:52:38 CDT 2011


John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM, hayhursm <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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> > dimesio wrote:
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> > > hayhursm wrote:
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> > > > I'm using MS Office 2007 Pro on Ubuntu 10.04 x64 through wine-1.3.17.  After a while my laptop will just freeze (like someone took a screenshot) when I have multiple PowerPoint windows open.  This problem seems to be only associated with PowerPoint and not the other Office Apps.  Also, whenever I minimize the PowerPoint windows they will group together on my taskbar but little gray square boxes appear on the top left hand side of my screen.  It takes a bit of clicking around to get a different PowerPoint window to maximize after it has minimized as well.  Any help is always greatly appreciated.
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> > > The problem with the "square boxes" and minimizing/maximizing is a known bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108
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> > > Your laptop freezing is Wine exposing some other problem with your system, most likely a buggy graphics driver. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-7f5c96516e61609acb0b2de9c0e6e97eadaff31a
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> > Thank you for the quick reply and info!  Hopefully these issues will be resolved in the next stable release perhaps?
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> The reply to this message was the problem has nothing at all to do
> with wine. So no it will not be resolved in any future version of
> wine.  You need to figure out if the problem is faulty hardware or
> your OS has a buggy video driver or some other driver.
> 
> John



Sorry, let me re-phrase...do you think http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108 will be fixed in the next stable release?  That appears to be a wine problem and not related to my graphics driver.







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