brundlelinux
July 9th, 2008, 04:42 PM
This is an issue of convenience really.
I'm using Ubuntu Hardy and Wine 1.X to play a windows-based game. The game runs flawlessly, and actually, better than it did on Windows.
The problem is that the game contains cinematic cut-scenes and quite often, when the game switches to a cinematic (or after I'm finished playing and exiting back to the Gnome desktop, or when first starting the game), the display will fail and go all black. I still have sound, and I can tell the OS is still functioning due to sounds in the background.
I'm not so much worried about making it stop doing it. I understand that porting a windows game to linux is not without some sacrifice. However, what I would like to know is a quicker way to reset my display manager without having to hard reboot the entire system. As it stands now, I have to turn off my computer and reboot each times this happens. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace takes me to the sign-on screen, but does NOT reset the display.
So, bottom line.... what I need to know is how to reset and restart my display manager from the desktop WITHOUT being able to see anything. I can go on faith with typing, but anything involving point-n-click is obviously out of the question.
Also, as a bit of an afterthought, allow me to add that I have tried many regressions of wine and mix-n-matches those with feisty, gutsy, and hardy. I get the same results with each. Oh, and the game I'm playing is a glide-based game. Diablo II, if that info helps.
Thanks in advance.
I'm using Ubuntu Hardy and Wine 1.X to play a windows-based game. The game runs flawlessly, and actually, better than it did on Windows.
The problem is that the game contains cinematic cut-scenes and quite often, when the game switches to a cinematic (or after I'm finished playing and exiting back to the Gnome desktop, or when first starting the game), the display will fail and go all black. I still have sound, and I can tell the OS is still functioning due to sounds in the background.
I'm not so much worried about making it stop doing it. I understand that porting a windows game to linux is not without some sacrifice. However, what I would like to know is a quicker way to reset my display manager without having to hard reboot the entire system. As it stands now, I have to turn off my computer and reboot each times this happens. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace takes me to the sign-on screen, but does NOT reset the display.
So, bottom line.... what I need to know is how to reset and restart my display manager from the desktop WITHOUT being able to see anything. I can go on faith with typing, but anything involving point-n-click is obviously out of the question.
Also, as a bit of an afterthought, allow me to add that I have tried many regressions of wine and mix-n-matches those with feisty, gutsy, and hardy. I get the same results with each. Oh, and the game I'm playing is a glide-based game. Diablo II, if that info helps.
Thanks in advance.