Adobe Photoshop

What works

PS boots but crashes (see What does not work).

What does not

PS boots normally, but before reaching its final GUI configuration crashes with the message:

Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable [Quit]

Starting Photoshop.exe in cli gives more information:

0178:err:sync:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 013F40F8 (null) wait timed out in thread 0178, blocked by 0024, retrying (60 sec)
0024:err:twain:twain_add_onedriver Source->(DG_CONTROL,DAT_IDENTITY,MSG_GET) failed!

...which seems to suggest that PS looks for TWAIN (driver) but can not find it, and as a result crashes ("...hardware ...error")

Workarounds

See test results of install on Debian 12 Bookworm with wine-staging 9.20 listed here (which works)

What was not tested

PS crashes and aborted, hence nothing was tested.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

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GUI here does not hold option to select correct wine version tested, which was wine-stable 9.0.0 (!)

@Bartosz: Please adapt the "Tested release info to 9.0.0. This is clearly advertised by wine as the "stable" version under "Latest Releases", and is installed when $USER does sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable as instructed. However, I can not selected it here in the pull down list!

(If adapted this text can be deleted of course ;)))

Unfortunately missing stable releases is an issue with appdb website. Please submit to winedb.

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Tested on Debian 12 install with 6.10.11+bpo (backport) kernel

• You shouldn't have to copy Photoshop from Windows; just install it under Wine by running its Setup.exe. (To run a .exe under wine, you have to doubleclick it, right click and choose "Run with Wine", or run it from the commandline using the 'wine' command, depending on how your Linux distribution integrates Wine.)
• Never use a cracked version of Photoshop.
• Never run Wine as root.
• Use a recent version of Wine (1.0.1 or later).
• Before installing Photoshop, install the Times32 font by downloading and running one of the corefont installers, e.g. http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/times32.exe , else Photoshop will abort with a "hardware error" [see bug 9623]
• The Clone tool uses the ALT key in a way that conflicts with many window managers. Here's how to fix that:
  • Ubuntu: System / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt".
  • Kubuntu: K / System Settings / Look and Feel / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt"
  • Suse with Gnome: Computer / Control Center / Look and Feel / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt"
  • Fedora 8 Gnome: System / Preferences / Look and Feel / Windows / Movement Key, and pick "Super" instead of "Alt
  • Suse with KDE: Gecko / Favorites / Configure Desktop / Desktop / Window Behavior / Window Actions / "Inner Window, Titlebar & Frame" , and pick "Meta" instead of "Alt"
    
  • Earlier KDE: KDE Control Center / Desktop / Window Behavior / Window Actions / turn off the alt-combos.
  • Earlier Gnome: Destop Preferences / Keyboard Layout / Options / Alt/Win key behavior [expand tree]; select new behavior for modifier keys

Thanks to earther for the following email:

I was having problems with the Photoshop 7 ALT-Click keybinding in a new Debian install running Compiz.  I did the standard window manager tweak but it still didn't work properly.  Then I discovered an ALT-Click keybinding in the Compiz Window Management > Move Window > Initiate Window Move settings. I changed it to 'super' like in Gnome window management and voila, it seemed to get it working again in Photoshop. You might want to add that bit of info to the clone tool info on the Photoshop 7 page.

earther