[Wine] wine freezes entire System

[L. Rahyen]

On 2011-01-08 (January, Saturday) 12:06:29 snejjj wrote:
> I suppose, it's not an actual WINE problem

	Of course it isn't. In any UNIX system it is impossible for an userland 
application ran by an ordinary user (not root) to crash your system.

> I'm running "Lineage 2" with WINE 1.3.10 on Kubuntu 10.10 with proprietary
> ATI graphics-driver.

	Here is the answer. If you want to play 3D games or use 3D applications, 
upgrade to NVidia card and use NVidia proprietary driver. ATI drivers are very  
buggy and may crash X or whole system when running 3D game or application; 
sometimes ATI drivers do not crash but you can see missing textures or other 
artifacts in you 3D game/application. Some 3D games/applications may work fine 
with ATI driver but only if you are lucky. Sorry if this is not an answer you 
wanted but this is just the way it is.

> after a (seemingly) random period of time, the entire
> system freezes. the only thing possible is moving the mouse-cursor, which
> doesn't change it's style anymore, when I move it out of the game-window.
> I then have to hard-reboot my system, as nothing responds anymore.

	If cursor is still moving, then your system probably didn't freeze. You 
can try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace first to restart X. If this does not help, try 
Alt+SysRq+K (SysRq key sometimes labeled as "Print" or "PrtScr" or "Print 
Screen" on a keyboard, and usually located near scroll-lock key). If the kernel 
still alive and you have SysRq keys enabled in it, it will kill your "frozen" X 
server.