On 5/24/07, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org 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.
I've had the keyboard stop responding... often... with a particular game. I have to go find the link to it.
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
But I have a PCI Geforce 6200.
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?
Definitely agreeing with that. Trying to convince my management that the blue screen of death triggered by my Windows program is also not my bug for the same reason.
Anyone else seen these kinds of reports?
Thanks, Scott Ritchie