Re: Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/24/07, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've noticed quite a few reports from users > complaining about Wine deadlocking their system - keyboard unresponsive, > with no solution but to restart the e

Re: Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-25 Thread L. Rahyen
On Thursday May 24 2007 18:35, Rick Romero wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:19 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've noticed quite a few reports from users > > complaining about Wine deadlocking their system - keyboard unresponsive, > > with no solution but to restart the

Re: Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-25 Thread James Liggett
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:11 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone else seen these kinds of reports? I have issues similar to Richard's with Counter-Strike: Source when I play in 800x600 mode. The game plays fine, but it hangs my box when I try to exit and wine tries to bring my desktop back t

Re: Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/24/07, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've noticed quite a few reports from users complaining about Wine deadlocking their system - keyboard unresponsive, with no solution but to restart the entire computer. I've had the keyboard stop responding... ofte

Re: Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-25 Thread eAi
I've had deadlocks every time I've tried to play Half-Life (1) on the current Ubuntu and current WINE. Had to restart the computer each time. Other programs seemed to be fine, but I imagine Half-Life is much more "intensive" than mIRC (for example). Ed Stefan Dösinger wrote: Hi Wine is a u

Re: Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-24 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Hi > Wine is a user-level process, > it shouldn't be able to cause a hardlock under any circumstances, right? Correct. The operating system must prevent user level apps from locking the system. So hard crashes are by definition NOT wine's bug. I think its not the kernel that crashes, rather the

Re: Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-24 Thread Maarten Lankhorst
Marcus Meissner schreef: > It is likely ATI or NVIDIA. > But yes, a broken graphics driver can cause user apps to deadlock the > machine. > > Ciao, Marcus Most likely, I get hard locks too when closing a d3d app by using control c, and my system hangs if I kill a wine process with xkill, both than

Re: Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-24 Thread Rick Romero
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:19 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've noticed quite a few reports from users > complaining about Wine deadlocking their system - keyboard unresponsive, > with no solution but to restart the entire computer. > > Sometimes users report this problem

Re: Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-24 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:19:23AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've noticed quite a few reports from users > complaining about Wine deadlocking their system - keyboard unresponsive, > with no solution but to restart the entire computer. > > Sometimes users report this

Alarming number of users getting hardlocks with Wine

2007-05-24 Thread Scott Ritchie
Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've noticed quite a few reports from users complaining about Wine deadlocking their system - keyboard unresponsive, with no solution but to restart the entire computer. Sometimes users report this problem after running ANY Wine process - even winecfg. I'm not sure what