[Wine] Help debugging lockup when running wine

[thethinker]

Hey all,
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with Wine 1.1.42 (distributed through the Ubuntu package manager), and I'm getting complete lockups when running SimCity 4. This also happened before when running WoW, but I switched games so did not completely debug that one.

So anyway, basically after playing for 20-60 minutes I get complete lockups, only thing that happens is blinking caps lock light. I guess this is not supposed to happen with Wine but it only occurs under wine so I figure this is the right place to start. Some system data:


Code:
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l





Code:
$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7300 GT] (rev a2)





Code:
$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 256.44 Thu Jul 29 01:30:36 PDT 2010
GCC version: gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5)





Code:
WINEDEBUG=+reg wine Apps/SimCity\ 4.exe 2>errror.log



And the output was very uninteresting...last few lines were all like


Code:

fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_Restore (0x1c07d8):stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x130ea0): semi-stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x130ea0): semi-stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x130ea0): semi-stub
fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_Restore (0x1c07d8):stub
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x130ea0): semi-stub




Seems unrelated to me. Love some advice on this, even if it's things to eliminate.

Thanks!

[DanKegel]

Complete lockups, you mean even CTL ALT F1 doesn't get you
a text console? If so, either you've hit a graphics driver
bug, or there's something wrong with your system...

[thethinker]

Yeah complete lockups, can't ALT-TAB, CTRL-ALT-FN to another screen, or CTRL-ALT-ARROW for another workspace.

So far it has only affected wine so if it's a video card issue that might give some clue as to how to find the bug?

(adding an edit above regarding the flashing caps lock)

[DanKegel]

Sounds like an nvidia driver bug or a system problem,
it's not a wine problem. Try downgrading to the latest
released version of the nvidia drivers?