On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:19:23AM -0700, Scott Ritchie 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.
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 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?
Anyone else seen these kinds of reports?
It is likely ATI or NVIDIA.
But yes, a broken graphics driver can cause user apps to deadlock the machine.
Ciao, Marcus