Running half-life turns X display into garbage

[Joshua Thielen]

Hello,

When I run half-life, the X display gets totally
corrupted and the only way to restore is to restart
the X server. I'm using an NVidia G-force 3 video card
running at 1024x768 with 16-bit color. I have already
run a few traces, but since I have no idea at what
point the display gets corrupted, it's kind of hard to
debug. Has anyone encountered this problem yet? Are
there any specific functions or channels I should be
looking at in the trace?

Thanks,

Josh Thielen

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[Ian D. Stewart]

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On Tuesday 02 July 2002 10:56, Joshua Thielen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I run half-life, the X display gets totally
> corrupted and the only way to restore is to restart
> the X server. I'm using an NVidia G-force 3 video card
> running at 1024x768 with 16-bit color. I have already
> run a few traces, but since I have no idea at what
> point the display gets corrupted, it's kind of hard to
> debug. Has anyone encountered this problem yet? Are
> there any specific functions or channels I should be
> looking at in the trace?

Take a look at Bugs 829 and 841 at http://bugs.winehq.com.  May be related.

Ian
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[Serge Ryabchun]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Joshua Thielen wrote:
> When I run half-life, the X display gets totally
> corrupted and the only way to restore is to restart
> the X server. I'm using an NVidia G-force 3 video card
> running at 1024x768 with 16-bit color.

Try "UseDGA"="no" in config or run HL without root rights.

[Joshua Thielen]

Serge Ryabchun wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Joshua Thielen wrote:
> > When I run half-life, the X display gets totally
> > corrupted and the only way to restore is to restart
> > the X server. I'm using an NVidia G-force 3 video card
> > running at 1024x768 with 16-bit color.
>
> Try "UseDGA"="no" in config or run HL without root rights.

This worked! Well, at least now I can get to the menu. But what is 
wrong? Is there a bug in wine's use of DGA?

Thanks!

Josh

[Serge Ryabchun]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Joshua Thielen wrote:
> > Try "UseDGA"="no" in config or run HL without root rights.
>
> This worked! Well, at least now I can get to the menu. But what is 
> wrong? Is there a bug in wine's use of DGA?

I think it because HL's menu is usual window and usual controls
with redefined draw methods.