[Bug 18392] New: Screen flickers when starting wine with fglrx

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18392

Summary: Screen flickers when starting wine with fglrx
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.0.1
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Hi, whenever I run wine with fglrx the screen flickers for about 20 seconds and
the UI crawls to a halt.

The flickering looks like thick horizontal black bars and I strongly suspect is
some kind of monitor probing. The same bars appear on a different windows
computer on the second monitor (so it is probably nothing to do with wine). The
same thing happens when I run the catalyst control centre (but it only takes
about 5 seconds).

I'm guessing, but I expect that this bug is being cause by wine unnecessarily
asking X for some display info, and fglrx taking ages to work stuff out.

I have the UseFastTLS option already set in my xorg.conf.

This is with Ubuntu 9.04.

[Bug 18392] Screen flickers when starting wine with fglrx

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18392

--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-05-08 10:02:06 ---
Does your screen flicker when you run 'xrandr' command?

[Bug 18392] Screen flickers when starting wine with fglrx

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18392

--- Comment #2 from Tim   2009-05-09 06:18:04 ---
It does. It also does it when I run Totem (not sure what video output it is
using - Gnome is very unhelpful here). It *doesn't* do it when I run mplayer
with any of the video outputs that I tried (xv, gl, gl2, x11).

This is starting to look like an fglrx bug. Is there a way to work around it?
E.g. an option not to enumerate the resolutions?

[Bug 18392] Screen flickers when starting wine with fglrx

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18392

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-05-09 09:20:14 ---
Driver bug indeed. Report it to AMD.

There is no way to work around it - Wine needs to query all available monitor
resolutions.

[Bug 18392] Screen flickers when starting wine with fglrx

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18392

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-05-09 09:21:43 ---
You could try to disable XRandr via registry but that means no real
full-screen. See UseXRandR in http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys