wine crashing on ubuntu 10.10

solution:downgrade wine, like so: uninstall the current version of winesudo apt-get remove wine1.3 wine1.3-gecko ttf-symbol-replacement-wine1.3 install the older stable version of winesudo apt-get install wine1.2backstory:I was recently trying to install steam on ubuntu 10.10 using the latest wine (1.4 something I believe). it kept crashing X windows right as it tried to launch steam.exe, or when I tried to launch it manually. here's the end of the terminal output:err:wgl:is_extension_supported No OpenGL extensions found, check if your OpenGL...

Playing Half Life 2 on an old/slow computer

I wanted to play Half Life 2 on an old laptop with Intel GMA 900 graphics (910GML/915GM chipset), but with the default settings the game would often become unbearably slow. So after doing some googling and lots of testing, I found some settings that seem to work. First, create a text file named autoexec.cfg and place it in the hl2/cfg folder. Give it the following contents:// see http://www.tweakguides.com/HL2_8.html for more information// also see https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/List_of_HL2_Cvars// ***** major stuff *****mat_compressedtextures...