2008/12/28 Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com:
Hi folks, it seems odd to me that Wine doesn't have a tool like dxdiag yet. We often have people complain that graphics aren't working, and we have to ask them to do things like run glxgears as diagnostics. Would it make sense to implement our own dxdiag.exe program? This seems like it might be a fun student project.
- Dan
If the student in question is capable, sure. Like Chris already mentioned, I think the main use of such an application would be dumping information like supported caps, texture formats, etc in case of D3D and supported extensions, pixelformats, various limits, drivers strings, etc. for OpenGL. It would probably also be useful to dump some registry settings, like anything under HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D. We could add some tests to see if basic D3D is working, but on its own I don't think that adds much over glxinfo & glxgears.