[cw-discuss] OpenSUSE 10.3 support

[Peter Lord]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 at 23:57 -0500, steven at codeweavers.com wrote:
> > Jeremy White wrote:
> >> Can you describe what you mean by pages of debug output?  Maybe attach
> >> a screen shot?  How are you starting Word - from the command line, or
> >> by clicking on the launcher?
> >
> > Running from the command line, I get the following output in my shell.
> > It all worked fine with 10.2, I haven't changed my Crossover setup at
> > all. I did, however, install the latest ATI driver, which involved a
> > number of packages named "fglrx", as mentioned in the report below. So I
> > guess it's something to do with that, although I don't see why Crossover
> > should care about the low level graphics driver.
> >
> > Any advice appreciated...
> 
> To quote one of the Wine developers
> 
> Ati's drivers are still very buggy. In various situations they even fall
> back to software rendering. In some cases the xorg.conf option
> 'UseFastTLS=2' can do miracles. It is important to find a testcase in
> which you can produce the problems. And then submit a bugreport to
> ati.cchtml.com (it is ati's unofficial bugzilla; all bugs are forwarded to
> ati and they really do something with them)


If it helps, I'm using opensuse 10.3 with the ATI fglrx driver - I built
and installed my own though ( version 8.40.4 ).  All seems well.

There are some issues, though, since opensuse 10.3 now uses libxcb -
java apps, for example, need to have LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK set and
the ATI configuration app doesn't work.

However, for me at least, crossover works fine with 8.40.4.

Pete