Black screen with Wine

[jhansonxi]

Binary package hint: kdebase

When attempting to run Wine 0.9.46 the screen goes black. Exiting the Wine app (winecfg, notepad, etc.) restores the display. On the same system, Wine does not exhibit this behavior in XFCE. Only errors I noticed are in .xsession-errors:

X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 19
  Minor opcode: 0
  Resource id: 0x22036dd
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
  Major opcode: 54
  Minor opcode: 0
  Resource id: 0x1a0fdfa
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode: 158
  Minor opcode: 6
  Resource id: 0x5c
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 19
  Minor opcode: 0
  Resource id: 0x3e00001
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
  Major opcode: 54
  Minor opcode: 0
  Resource id: 0x1a1058d

This may be related to Bug #120939.
Running Xubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) with kubuntu-desktop added.
System info:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
Linux jhansonxi-xf 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 06:00:47 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Using xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.1.1-0ubuntu7
1024x768x24bpp

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

It only seems to occur when the wine app is in the foreground. If I alt-tab the desktop is shown, and back to black if I alt-tab to wine again. Also occurs at 800x600.

[Rob Watson (r-watson)]

I had this problem until I switched to the NVidia video driver. Then it works better than ever - much faster startup than on Edgy or Feisty.

So maybe it's some kind of driver incompatibility.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

not sure if it related, but i get the black screen while wine apps are in the foreground (but with no error messages).

this happens when i try to run wine over ssh

sam@titania:~$ ssh -XC oberon
sam@oberon:~$ winecfg

(titania is a runing powerpc ubuntu 7.04 with radeon driver, oberon is running amd64 ubuntu with nouveau driver)

other programs work fine over ssh. wine works fine just on oberon (no tunneling).

could this be a direct rendering issue? does wine always use direct rendering?

[gregh (rprab)]

same problem but under gnome with ati driver.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Moving the bug to wine, since it also appears on GNOME.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I'm confirming this bug based on the comments above. There is enough information for the developers to begin work on this.

Could anyone confirm if this is still present in Hardy 8.04.01 please.

Thanks for helping.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Hi, I'm not able to reproduce this bug on the latest Ubuntu. We now have newer versions of Wine and the various video card drivers that were probably responsible, so I'm going to tentatively mark it fixed released. If you encounter it again please feel free to reopen the bug. Thank you for reporting!