[parityboy]

Ok, I've just upgraded my Linux Mint 13 WINE installation to version 1.6. Now when I start WoW with the OpenGL option I get a black main screen, with the usual WoW mouse pointer still visible. Has anyone else experienced this, and how did you overcome it?

Many thanks.

EDIT:

Solved it. The nVIDIA drivers were also updated, but the previous kernel module was still running. A reboot solved the issue. Obviously the drivers won't tolerate even the smallest mismatch.

 

[iPatch]

Rofl. That's sad :C

 

[Plan9]

Yeah, Nvidia blobs seems quite fussy about wanting restarts. More so than most of the other graphics drivers from what I've seen.

 

[Xaero252]

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Originally Posted by Plan9

Yeah, Nvidia blobs seems quite fussy about wanting restarts. More so than most of the other graphics drivers from what I've seen.

With good reason. ATi drivers are a mess because they try and do userspace with a kernel hook. nVidia blobs are pure kernel mode. This gives them direct hardware access. With the number of memcpy and pointer calls they have - they could easily corrupt firmware with a version conflict. It's pretty easy to just install them and restart X though.

This is another showcase example of a system that will be made better with Wayland; online driver refreshes a la Windows. One blank for VGA bios reset, one blank for new driver init. X doesn't play nice with that so rmmod nvidia && insmod nvidia will just result in a black screen. The cleanest solution though (since restarting X doesn't always work) is to kexec boot. Which I highly recommend. Its much faster than a full system reboot. Ex. 10 seconds on my system with several large volumes - vice a full 1m reboot (I have 2 bios's to wait through, and a full raid array init to wait through...)

Anyways yeah, I was gonna drop in earlier and let you know to reboot if you'd updated your drivers or kernel - but you already found the solution I see.