i am running fedora core 6, kernel version 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6.

i installed wine using "yum install wine" and it installed version:

0.9.32-1.fc6

i have earlier installed nvidia drivers version:

"xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i386 1.0.9755-3.lvn6"
"kmod-nvidia.i686 1.0.9755-2.2.6.19_1.29"

problem is, when i try to run winecfg from a terminal window i get error message:

err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x606fa1a0 "x11drv_main.c: X11DRV_CritSection" wait timed out in thread 000c, blocked by 000b, retrying (60 sec)

then after a while the window comes up all borked and it shows the contents of the windows that are moved around it, and i get another error message:

wine: Critical section 606fa1a0 wait failed at address 0x602b44b0 (thread 000c), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: wait failed on critical section 0x606fa1a0 thread_data_tls_index+0x44
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000194 flags 0 addr 0x602b44b0
Process of pid=000a has terminated
No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Modules:'
Cannot get info on module while no process is loaded
No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Threads:'
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008
00000009 0

i have just (less than an hour ago) tried to reinstall wine as well, but with no luck.
if anybody here can lend me a helping hand, i will be very grateful.

ok, what program are you trying to run with wine?
some apps just don't work.

second, when you "reinstalled" wine, how did you do this?
did you install from source? and if so, what did "./configure" tell you?

did you test it with other aplications?

there to few info to help you.

is you could, remove wine (from source, go to your source directory and type "make uninstall", then type "./configure" to find out if there is anything missing.

if you just want to test if wine runs, "noip" works, "notepad" works, "regedit" works, and some other small apps. if these won't run, your wine is just wrong.

allso, try to install the NVidia drivers from the NVidia website, i've found these to be quite nice recently.

i it installed using yum both times. i figured i could've got a borked package the first time around. since i used yum, i didn't see any errors.

neither of the programs in the wine bundle works. they all return similar error messages and results.

i have yet to test it with a program, because i prefer to check the setup. but since not even notepad works, i guess it'll be hard to test other programs

ok, try this:

remove wine using yum, make sure it's gone.
go to www.nvidia.com, download the nvidia driver.
install this driver in a console screen.
start up your X again when the driver is installed
go to www.winehq.com, download wine from source.
extract, and go to the directory you just extracted using a terminal inside an X session.
as a USER, type "./configure" in the winedir and check the end of the output for "WARNINGS"
fix the warnings, there mostly about packages needed to be installed.
when "./configure" gives no more warnings, do "make depend && make"
after make is done, get root access ("su") and type "make install"
after this is done, you can fine-tune wine using "winecfg".
to start a program, type "wine app.exe" where app.exe is your program.

this should fix most of the problems.

Be aware that if you install the drivers from nvidia they will replace core components with versions that are not necessarily compatable with anything else (livna's do not). I would also consider updating to the newer kernel, there have been issues on and off with certain kernels and wine.

thanks for the help. i sat up all night trying to get it all to work, but i could not get both tvout and wine working at the same time. i will give another distro a try instead, as i have realized that fedora can be dodgy at times.

Thanks again for the quick replies

well, i find fedora to run wine (or cedega) just as eg: mandriva or suse would do.
if you really are intrested in running wine, i suggest you give gentoo a go.