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 problem after running ANY Wine process - > even winecfg. > > I'm not sure what's causing the issue. At first I thought it was a > hardware thing (perhaps ATI's infamously terribly drivers), but would > that still prevent winecfg from working? Wine is a user-level process, > it shouldn't be able to cause a hardlock under any circumstances, right? > > Anyone else seen these kinds of reports?
It is likely ATI or NVIDIA. But yes, a broken graphics driver can cause user apps to deadlock the machine. Ciao, Marcus
