using wine with ubuntu 9.04 on a DELL Inspirion 530
 

I am still having problems running wine on ubuntu 9.04. The Dell pc I am using was purchased with ubuntu 8.10 pre-installed by Dell, I then upgraded to 9.04 and now all is fine....Except wine. I have the latest version installed.

When accessing wine, the screen continues to flash and everything slows down to a crawl, even the desktop and mouse clicks are delayed. To stop this I am required to do a system restart.

Any ideas? If any suggestions require terminal entries, please could you let me know what to type?

Thanks All

Itbod

are you using nvidia for graphics? Either way it looks like a glx problem with wine. If your using nvidia you'll have to re-install the graphix driver....maybe just install nvidia-glx, not sure, but i'm guessing it has to do with your drivers and glx.

A couple questions quick...

What is your video chipset?
Do you have 32bit or 64bit?

Those 2 questions would help a lot, as it would give me an idea where to start.

Hi

I belive it is a nvida-glx card. running 32bit. Don't know what chipset it's using, system says it has 8mb ram for video. How do I re-install the graphix driver? Sorry to sound a little silly but I am still learning linux, used to be a DOS guy for years.

regards
Itbod

try installing nvidia drivers if that's what it is based off of

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...linux.-749929/

I'm guessing you have onboard video?

Hi

just found out my system is using an ATI/AMD FGLRX driver for the video and that it is a proprietry driver in use.

Any ideas?

=S We'd need to know what chipset it's based off of.

I will try to contact Dell and see if they know what chipset they are using. Whatch this space.

Thanks