wine users - Feb 2012 - Warcraft 3 'Please Insert CD' fixed in 1 Distro, not Another

Hello Wine community. I have received lots of help in the past on this website
and I'm hoping to get some more from you guys on this problem as well.

Anyways, onto the situation:

Currently I am distro hopping to see what fits me best, and I am currently
typing this from Gentoo Linux. Using Portage (Gentoo's package manager) I
installed nVidia's proprietary drivers and Warcraft 3's "Please
Insert CD" message was fixed and worked properly.

The problem though, is that Slackware does not have nVidia's proprietary
drivers, so I installed them directly from nVidia's website. I downloaded
the *.run file from:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/290.10/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run

Then I used:


Code:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run



Everything worked and installed perfectly. However, this time when I try to
install Warcraft 3 in Slackware, it fails to start as I get the "Please
Insert CD" prompt. Seeing this, my first reaction is to go to the Wine
AppDB for Warcraft 3 and I read this:

> If you get this problem after having this version installed, you are likely
suffering from a buggy video driver as this is the only known (and proven
possible) cause at this point.

I don't believe the video driver is buggy as Gentoo installs the same
packages, and installs them from source as well. However, I do believe that I am
missing something when I installed the nVidia drivers, or perhaps the Gentoo
developers added something with the nVidia drivers.

I also believe this is important, but I might be wrong: On Slackware's
nVidia drivers, when I click (on the left tab) "OpenGL/GLX
Information" the nvidia-settings program crashes/closes itself. It is
restartable but the error constantly happens.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Entanglement wrote:
> 
>
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/290.10/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run
> 
Did you install the necessary 32 bit parts? 
> I also believe this is important, but I might be wrong: On Slackware's
nVidia drivers, when I click (on the left tab) "OpenGL/GLX
Information" the nvidia-settings program crashes/closes itself. It is
restartable but the error constantly happens.
Sounds like the driver isn't installed correctly. You really need to ask for
help with this on the Slackware forum.