My short question is:
How do I get rid of the RandR error below, while still using a proprietaty nVidia driver package (e.g. 304) ?
The gore follows.
A fresh install of wine 1.5 (latest, from ubuntu-wine ppa) leaves me with the following when I run winecfg for the spanking-first time, and note I have not touched winetricks yet, nor does ~/.wine exist :
me@mine:~$ winecfg
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/me/.wine'
**err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.**
[err repeats at least 4x more]
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
[fixme repeats at least 2x more]
err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
...
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x112e8d0, overlapped 0x112e8dc): stub
wine: configuration in '/home/me/.wine' has been updated.
**err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.**
[err repeats sporadically]
Removing the current nVidia packages and (re)installing Nouveau gets rid of the RandR error, but gives me copious errors when I launch anything requiring shader model 3, e.g. Eve Online, my only motivation to wrestle with Wine, currently. For it to run, I know I need the proprietary driver, and so Nouveau is not a solution for me - unless y'all know how to get sm3 support with the open stuff currently available, which would be just fabulous and tell me please.
I have gathered from WineHQ that the fixmes and the majority of errs are an innocuous "don't look behind the curtain" type of wish-list verbosity.
This Broken nVidia RandR thing, though, is something I'd like to deal with in order to get to, well, the other graphics issues I'm crossing my fingers about (in particular, a manual modification of wine1.5's shader model 3 detection routine to allow for my nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS, which is one of the few sm3-compliant laptop gpu's to come out before sm4-type features were also implemented, leaving it out of consideration by the current Wine developers who seem to use sm4-ish flags to test for sm3 suport).
In order to tinker with my other woes, I must first eliminate the non-starters. This RandR is one. I think it's different from the other related posts in that I have not attempted to run anything other than winecfg itself to elicit the error, as opposed to a third party program.
PS `uname -a` --> Linux aestrid 3.8.0-12-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 7 17:17:00 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
PPS `raring` up-to-the-minute update/dist-upgrade
How to solve this ?
PPPS If Henri Verbeet is listening.
