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#1 2007-11-26 12:07:11
- Xilon
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Is WINE perfect? Freezing just like in Windows!
Hi,
I just installed wine to check out an app , but whenever I run wine or winecfg my whole PC freezes. Not just X, everything. I can't even use sysrq commands to get back into a console, the only thing that I know is running is mpd 
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The problem seems to occur when wine generates prefixes. Any ideas?
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#2 2007-11-28 13:30:50
- mucknert
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Re: Is WINE perfect? Freezing just like in Windows!
Talk about strange behavior in wine! I have some troubles with it, too. The most "fun" thing I had was when my MBR was totally trashed everytime I played Diablo 2 in Wine. Grub wasn't there, all I got was errors. Reinstall grub on hda fixed the problem (after using a boot CD). I could track it down to wine and it *always* happened. Other applications didn't make such problems though. OTOH, that only happened on Arch.
So wine is far from perfect but it's still the best I can imagine.
Todays mistakes are tomorrows catastrophes.
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#3 2007-11-28 15:38:58
- janoli
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Re: Is WINE perfect? Freezing just like in Windows!
the same here. 
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#4 2007-11-28 15:46:27
- brebs
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Re: Is WINE perfect? Freezing just like in Windows!
Trashing the MBR was years ago, and it impacted lotsa distros.
If the whole PC freezes, it could be a problem with the video driver.
Improve your desktop responsiveness and font rendering and ALSA sound and BusyBox init
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#5 2007-11-28 16:51:16
- mucknert
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Re: Is WINE perfect? Freezing just like in Windows!
@brebs: Still happens to me though.
Todays mistakes are tomorrows catastrophes.
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