wine users - Oct 2008 - Problems running Writeoutloud

Hi

I'm trying to get Writeoutloud (talking wordprocessor for dyslexics) running
on an Asus Eeepc (Xandros) using Wine 1.0.

The prog installed reasonably well and after running Winetricks and fixing mfc42
I got the prog to boot. It boots OK and accepts keystrokes but when the spacebar
is pressed and the prog attempts to spellcheck the word just completed I get an
error message to say 'No spellchecker found'. (The spellchecker
dictionaries are there in the Writeoutloud folder so that's not the problem)

Speech works with Writeoutloud 'echoing' words as you go as it should.

Here's the output from Wine

/home/user> wine /home/user/.wine/drive_c/DonJohnston/WOL/WOL.exe
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file
or directory
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class
SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
err:dc:CreateDCW no driver found for L""

I'd very much appreciate any help with his because I'm a teacher working
with dyslexic children. An Asus Eeepc with a talking wordprocesor / spellchecker
would be a wonderful resource!

Graeme wrote:
> /home/user> wine /home/user/.wine/drive_c/DonJohnston/WOL/WOL.exe
> 
Your program might not like this command. Please use something like this:

Code:
wine start /unix /home/user/.wine/drive_c/DonJohnston/WOL/WOL.exe




See http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8d8c06cf7fb33269c085a07531b61e5c730566e0 and
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3b297df7a5411abe2b8d37fead01a2b8edc21619 for
more details.

Thanks Austin. That resolves the problem of running the prog without changing
the original filenames but unfortunately I'm still getting the spellchecker
error when it boots up and I start using it. Any thoughts about that?

Graeme

/home/user> cd /home/user/.wine/drive_c/DonJohnston/WriteOutloud\ V3/
/home/user/.wine/drive_c/DonJohnston/WriteOutloud V3> wine WriteOutloud\
v3.exe ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such
file or directory
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class
SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
err:dc:CreateDCW no driver found for L""