Wine : unbunte 8.04 -> 8.10 : Font problem in Wine applications

Could you attach a screenshot please?

Also, could you try moving (or renaming) the hidden ~/.wine folder, and then run winecfg again to see if the problem represents itself in a new Wine setup?

Have had same problem. Renamed ~/.wine folder and re-ran winecfg - result is same (see screenshot below)

This attachment should work (for some reason yours didn't have a .png extension)

Scott Ritchie a écrit :
> Could you attach a screenshot please?
>
> Also, could you try moving (or renaming) the hidden ~/.wine folder, and
> then run winecfg again to see if the problem represents itself in a new
> Wine setup?
>
> ** Changed in: wine (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
Here is the print screen...
I'll try to remove =/.wine this evening and I'll send you the results as
soon as possible.

Best regards

M. Paquet

Scott Ritchie a écrit :
> This attachment should work (for some reason yours didn't have a .png
> extension)
>
> ** Attachment added: "Wine Font Issue.png"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19841385/Wine%20Font%20Issue.png
>
> ** Changed in: wine (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
>
I've try it..
It does not work (see attachment).

Best regards

M. Paquet

I'm seeing this, too. It seems quite new -- was there a recent update of some font library in ubuntu?

Fresh .wine and fresh wine from git don't help.

Also, with visual effects on in the ubuntu desktop, lots of stuff is all f*cked up. Even the title bar
for xterm looks awful when you mouse over the minimize/maximize buttons. And text doesn't appear *at all* in wine with that setting.

This is with the latest nvidia drivers from ubuntu.

The culprit may be be (from /var/log/dpkg.log):

2008-11-21 20:31:01 install nvidia-glx-96 <none> 96.43.09-0ubuntu1

Doing System / Administration / Hardware Drivers
and then disabling the nvidia driver -- and then rebooting! --
seems to make the problem go away on my compaq r3000.

I can confirm Dan's discovery. My initial install of wine 1.1.8 on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) had no issues with fonts. Only after I modified System->Appearance->Visual Effects from 'None' to 'Normal' did the problem occur. I recall in making this change that the nVidia driver needed to be installed after which I needed to re-boot to enable the effects. I played around with the effects on and decided that I preferred the 'None' setting and switched it back and rebooted again. However, the driver remained activated and thus the problem did not go away.

Like Dan, I deactivated the nVidia hardware driver, rebooted and the problem went away - however... I had to re-install Wine in order to get it working again.

Running on a Pentium III Dell Dimension 4100

Thanks Dan!

- Chuck

Dan, can you test the nvidia-glx-177 or -173 drivers? It seems like there's overlap with those and the -96 in terms of what cards they support.

ChasD: what version of the drivers did you have? Also -96?

Scott Ritchie a écrit :
> Dan, can you test the nvidia-glx-177 or -173 drivers? It seems like
> there's overlap with those and the -96 in terms of what cards they
> support.
>
> ChasD: what version of the drivers did you have? Also -96?
>
I was also in 96...
With "nv", the font is correctly screened.
I've try other nvidia configurations but they did not work at
all...(nvidia did not start and I've to use a TTY console to change back
to the "nv" X11 configuration)
I've possibelly make mistakes in those configurations...
This is the last nvidia "packages" installed on my computer (and did not
work):
nvidia-173-modaliases
nvidia-177-kernel-source
nvidia-177-modaliases
nvidia-71-modaliases
nvidia-96-modaliases
nvidia-common
nvidia-glx-177
nvidia-kernel-common
nvidia-settings
(all from "Intrepid" repositionary)

Best regards

M. Paquet

Sadly, I don't have any cards that are supported by both drivers.

I see there is an older version of nvidia-glx-96 available
( http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/nvidia-glx-96
vs. http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-updates/nvidia-glx-96 )
but I can't figure out how to install it; I tried downloading
its three files and doing
  sudo dpkg -i nvidia-96-kernel-source_96.43.05-0ubuntu10_i386.deb nvidia-glx-96-dev_96.43.05-0ubuntu10_i386.deb nvidia-glx-96_96.43.05-0ubuntu10_i386.deb
but this failed with
 Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.27-7-generic (i686)
 Consult the make.log in the build directory
 /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/96.43.05/build/ for more information.
That file had lots of compile errors, e.g.
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/96.43.05/build/nv.c:14:
 /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/96.43.05/build/nv-linux.h: In function ‘nv_execute_on_all_cpus’:
 /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/96.43.05/build/nv-linux.h:620: error: too many arguments to function ‘on_each_cpu’

So I guess the easiest path would be to try a fresh install of
*non-updated* Intrepid. If that doesn't have the problem,
then the likely culprit is the newer nvidia-96 version in intrepid updates.
- Dan

mpaq a écrit :
> Scott Ritchie a écrit :
>> Dan, can you test the nvidia-glx-177 or -173 drivers? It seems like
>> there's overlap with those and the -96 in terms of what cards they
>> support.
>>
>> ChasD: what version of the drivers did you have? Also -96?
>>
> I was also in 96...
> With "nv", the font is correctly screened.
> I've try other nvidia configurations but they did not work at
> all...(nvidia did not start and I've to use a TTY console to change back
> to the "nv" X11 configuration)
> I've possibelly make mistakes in those configurations...
> This is the last nvidia "packages" installed on my computer (and did not
> work):
> nvidia-173-modaliases
> nvidia-177-kernel-source
> nvidia-177-modaliases
> nvidia-71-modaliases
> nvidia-96-modaliases
> nvidia-common
> nvidia-glx-177
> nvidia-kernel-common
> nvidia-settings
> (all from "Intrepid" repositionary)
>
>
> Best regards
>
> M. Paquet
>
I've come back to -96 version (my old ti 200 card is not compatible with
other versions) because colors in DVD and pictures are to affected by
the nv drive (every things seems to be in black and withe)
Hoping you could improve the Intrepid nvidia version...

Best regards

M. Paquet

same problem here, having those nvidia packages (dpkg -l | grep nvidia | grep ^ii [...]):
nvidia-173-modaliases: 173.14.12-1-0ubuntu5
nvidia-177-modaliases: 177.80-0ubuntu3
nvidia-71-modaliases: 71.86.07-0ubuntu1
nvidia-96-kernel-source: 96.43.09-0ubuntu1
nvidia-96-modaliases: 96.43.09-0ubuntu1
nvidia-common: 0.2.4
nvidia-glx-96: 96.43.09-0ubuntu1
nvidia-kernel-common: 20051028+1+nmu2ubuntu2
nvidia-settings: 177.78-0ubuntu2.1

and recommended/suggested fonts for wine:
ttf-liberation (recommended)
msttcorefonts (suggested)

Same problem here with NVIDIA Geforce ti 4200 only supported by 96 drivers.

My packages:
linux-image-2.6.27-10-generic 2.6.27-10.20
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic 2.6.27-10.14
nvidia-96-kernel-source 96.43.09-0ubuntu1
nvidia-96-modaliases 96.43.09-0ubuntu1
nvidia-glx-96 96.43.09-0ubuntu1

I did try wine version 1.0.1 from ubuntu.com, wine 1.1.9 from winehq and wine 0.9.58 from winehq. None of them worked.

I also tried to add Option "RenderAccel" "0" to the device section in the xorg.conf, but it did not help.

Scott Ritchie a écrit :
> Dan, can you test the nvidia-glx-177 or -173 drivers? It seems like
> there's overlap with those and the -96 in terms of what cards they
> support.
>
> ChasD: what version of the drivers did you have? Also -96?
>
No one is working with my old Ti 200 card.
But the -96 version of nvidia drivers was perfectly working on ubuntu
8.04...
Is it not possible to import those "old" drivers is the new ubuntu 8.10
with a other revision so that they could replace the actual version just
for the time you'll find the solution for those new drivers?

Best regards

M. Paquet

I had this problem with my legacy nVidia card, and found the solution on UbuntuForums ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=966709 ) with a reference to a wine FAQ entry ( http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-dec980f6deabdb11b789c981bf49e10e70929eaf ).

Appending

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
"ClientSideWithRender"="N"

to wine registry did the trick.

Alexander A. a écrit :
> I had this problem with my legacy nVidia card, and found the solution on
> UbuntuForums ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=966709 ) with a
> reference to a wine FAQ entry ( http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-
> dec980f6deabdb11b789c981bf49e10e70929eaf ).
>
> Appending
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
> "ClientSideWithRender"="N"
>
> to wine registry did the trick.
>
It's working...
Just creat a settings.txt file with the precedent lines ([HKEY....)
save it in .wine
and run regedit setttings.txt from your .wine dir...

Thanks

mpaq

Also worked for me (nvidea MX440)

Thanks

"Appending

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
"ClientSideWithRender"="N"

to wine registry did the trick."

also worked for me on the Wine issue, but have also found that the nvidia -96 driver is still a problem. You may want me to open another issue, but I think it's related... that is when I re-activate the nvidia driver, I have now found it trashes the menus in openoffice. I've confirmed if I deactivate the nvidia -96 driver that the openoffice menus are fine.

Let me know how you want to handle (new bug?) - Chuck

Since this affects both Wine and OpenOffice, and seems to be caused by a problem in the old nvidia drivers, let's move it to the nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package.

I tried reproducing the openoffice problem, but couldn't. Can you give a recipe or more details there?

For me regedit did the trick too. Thank you very much!
I love the community therefore.

For OpenOffice I solved the issue as explained in one of the comments of bug #251107, that is inserting in section Device of /etc/X11/xorg.conf the line

Option "RenderAccel" "0"

Hope this can help you

Rgds

Giorgio / Chuck, can you provide a screenshot of the problem in OpenOffice
or a recipe for how to reproduce the OpenOffice problem?

Dan,

the problem I had (and that is cited in bug #251107) is that with the recently released nvidia legacy driver compatible with Xorg 7.5, that is 96.43.09, OOo, KDE3 and Wine applications don't show neither menus nor dialog text. Completely. All the room reserved for menu and and other text is simply white, though it responds to the mouse click correctly and some blinking text is shown, but then disappears. All these effects with the xorg workaround are not present (for OOo and KDE3 apps). This is a known bug to be bored in order to have accelerated 3d and desktop effects for, as me, have old graphic cards.

Thank you for your support

rgds

Giorgio, thanks for that link. It led me to the thread
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1827692
in which (see post number 8) AaronP of NVIDIA Corporation
explains what the bug is and says it will be fixed in the next beta
release of the driver.

The latest beta release number is listed at
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606
(also by Aaron P). As soon as there's a release of
"Legacy releases for GeForce 2 through GeForce 4 series GPUs"
that's later than 96.43.09, give it a try.

Also: the bug affects firefox 3 in Intrepid, too! For me, viewing the page
http://hi.baidu.com/jmlover/blog/item/ea27c83df3b883c29f3d62cf.html
shows the font scribble with the nvidia driver, but not with the nv driver.

(One more note: the nvidia thread mentions that turning on antialiased
font rendering is another workaround.)

I made the registry change suggested above and still have the problem (nvidia 96.43.09 + nvidia 6200 chipset video card). See attached wine garbled config screen. The web page linked above also displays with garbled characters.

This was fixed with the nvidia 96.43.10 drivers in Jaunty.

Great for Jaunty - we're still shipping something with broken font rendering in Intrepid, though!