[Bug 20559] New: Google Earth Makes whole screen black

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

Summary: Google Earth Makes whole screen black
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.32
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-d3d
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Loading Google Earth results in a blacked out screen. Only the mouse cursor
changes when moving between buttons / edit boxes.

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Google-Earth-Download-23512.html

NVidia 185.18.36
Nvidia Quadro NVS 320M

[Bug 20559] Google Earth Makes whole screen black

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

Jeff Zaroyko  changed:

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           Keywords|                            |download
           Severity|blocker                     |normal

--- Comment #1 from Jeff Zaroyko   2009-11-02 15:37:08 ---
not a blocker, http://bugs.winehq.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#importance

[Bug 20559] Google Earth Makes whole screen black [dogfood]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|directx-d3d                 |-unknown
            Summary|Google Earth Makes whole    |Google Earth Makes whole
                   |screen black                |screen black [dogfood]
           Severity|normal                      |minor

--- Comment #2 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-11-02 20:48:18 ---
Have you disabled compiz/3d effects?

[Bug 20559] Google Earth Makes whole screen black [dogfood]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

--- Comment #3 from Mike van Niekerk   2009-11-03 01:51:55 ---
When disabling compiz it works (there are some problems in the menus - no
text). But in terms of the whole screen turning black that doesn't happen.

[Bug 20559] Google Earth Makes whole screen black [dogfood]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

--- Comment #4 from Mike van Niekerk   2009-11-03 01:54:14 ---
The same behaviour in 1.1.31 as well.

[Bug 20559] Google Earth Makes whole screen black [dogfood]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #5 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-11-03 02:09:46 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> When disabling compiz it works (there are some problems in the menus - no
> text). But in terms of the whole screen turning black that doesn't happen.

That makes this bug invalid, please report the problem to Compiz developers.

[Bug 20559] Google Earth Makes whole screen black [dogfood]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #6 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-11-03 02:10:03 ---
Closing.

[Bug 20559] Google Earth Makes whole screen black [dogfood]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

--- Comment #7 from Mike van Niekerk   2009-11-03 02:23:36 ---
So there is no way Wine developers are going to see why this happens? Great.
Compiz is enabled on most if not all Ubuntu installations. I'm not convinced
that the user will see "It is a Compiz bug" as sufficient. Wine runs Windows
applications on Ubuntu (or any Compiz enabled distro for that matter) and it
really looks bad if one installs this and all you get is a blank screen.

I've tested it with Codeweavers CrossOver Office 8.0 and the same problem
persists.

Please reconsider this on the argument that Compiz has become the standard and
that there is no other applications (except Wine) on Linux that creates this
blacked out screen.

[Bug 20559] Google Earth Makes whole screen black [dogfood]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

--- Comment #8 from Sven   2009-11-03 02:31:57 ---
That compiz is being used by many distros doesn't mean it doesn't contain bugs.
They should support wine, and not the other way round. Just as much as wine
bugs should be reported here, not necessaryly at the windows application's
support.

[Bug 20559] Google Earth Makes whole screen black [dogfood]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20559

--- Comment #9 from Mike van Niekerk   2009-11-03 02:40:02 ---
Understood. But there is still a part that Wine can play in running on a
platform and running on a platform properly. In the very least Wine can help
the Xorg developers in finding the root of this problem. If our binaries causes
drawing anomalies then it is also our responsibility to find out why our
binaries are causing this. Google Earth doesn't cause a blacked out screen on
XP, Vista or 7. Vista + 7 runs on a composited environment (like Compiz)
without problems. When Wine tries to run this application on the de facto
composition environment of Linux it creates a blacked out screen.

What I'm getting at is that Wine also has a part to play in this problem.

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24867
That is the Compiz bug I've just created.