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I tried to run a demo of Hype: The time quest (Windows 95/98, uses directX6 or some glide3 for 3D stuff) to see if it would work. It installed, but comes up with a weird "Cannot find a game using directdraw" error. I uninstalled it and went about my way. While it would be cool to have this run, that is not my main problem. Now, I cannot run Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (also windows 95/98--runs

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1520/screenshot10ul7.png It's the same on all resolutions, even on high ones, but I'm legally blind so I have to use 800x600 ~_~ Reinstalling Wine didn't help, completely removing it and reinstalling it didn't do squat, installing some msfont thing didn't do anything either. anyway, I'm a total noob at this linux thing, the only reason i

MKVCrazy wrote: > Host: Ubuntu Karmic Koala > Guest: Windows XP > VBox: 3.1.2 PUEL > > I was happy using my guest XP with Guest Addictions installed. But I wasn't able to get the videos play perfect. It picture will messes up if I move the windows around the desktop. So I though it might be lack of WineD3D and so I installed it from wined3d.iso. Then it messed up my guest XP.

I have just moved to a new server and transfered all my files over etc and also installed wine using yum, however I had a script on my site that used wine (via exec command) that no longer worked after the transfer to the new server. I tried a few things on the server thinking it was a problem with current setup but got nowhere, I then uninstalled wine via "yum erase wine" and

I did a forum search and found 16 pages for uninstalling wine. Only one was semi-helpful. What I got was: > > [Bakshara at Bakshara ~]$ rmdir ~/.wine > rmdir: failed to remove `/home/Bakshara/.wine': Directory not empty > What do I need to do? I want to uninstall wine 1.1.24 and install 1.1.26. I currently only have three apps installed. So any thing I will loose will be easy

i wanted to config something but mess up the config panel. i cannot switch back to default. was very visible before, but now its not useful in anyway i tried removeing wine using synaptic package manager but the screwed settings still remain i tried moving around the window to select the graphics tab but it can not scroll down to select resolution (wine conf ) i tried reinstalling but its

[background] I had Ubuntu 10.04 loaded from a CD. CD failed to directly install, instead required that I go into the live session from the CD and then install. Loaded eve online with all those funny command codes you never see in windows like PPA:wine-somethingorother, and put in winetricks as well. used winetricks to install core fonts and d3dx9 set to opengl orm = backbuffer and all that

Welp. I totally hosed my Wine installation. I am brand new to Linux. I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Latitude d630 and I am trying to get Wine working. A Short History: The first time I installed Ubuntu something went wrong and I had to uninstall & reinstall it to get it working. Now when I turn on my PC there are two versions of Ubuntu in the boot menu along with Windows XP

Hi Duncan, Thanks for the suggestions. How do I uninstall mesa related installations? Do I need to uninstall all of "mesa" or only the specific ones? Santosh On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: > On 24/11/2017 5:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> >> On 24 November 2017 at 11:30, Santosh wrote: >> | Hi

Hi. I'm running Debian Lenny, and I'm having a problem with Wine and playing TF2. I used to be able to play TF2 under DirectX 8.1 before updating to the newest version, no problems. I didn't even have to use the option -dxlevel 81, it was already set to it when I looked under video settings in TF2. However, with Wine 0.9.59, it seems that the DirectX that comes bundled with Wine is

hello all, im woundering how can i uninstall directx 9 in wine and install directx 8.1b ?? is there a guide or something??

Hi Rxperts, I tried with r-cran-rgl (based on the default installation of Ubuntu) with reinstalled rgl package from R-forge.. I get the missing GL/gl.h header. Didn't reinstall Mesa libraries per recommendations of Duncan. * installing *source* package ?rgl? ...** package ?rgl? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checkedchecking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99 checking whether the C compiler

i`m new to ubuntu and linux (and, of course, wine)...yesterday tried to install bs-player, it didnt work, and after i did uninstall the bs-player folder remained in the menu (applications > wine > programs) ...can it be removed? or reinstalled?? i`m running ubuntu hardy, wine 1.1.3... any help will be appreciated...

I was messing around with the dimensions of the window that a program opens in and now it is a mess. Everything is huge in the window and I cannot resize it or scroll around in it. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and the same settings keep coming back. How do I completely uninstall Wine and reinstall it so it is all back to the default settings from the original install?

Hi; I went to install some s/w and it looked like there was a problem with openssl. So I decided to uninstall it (yum remove) and reinstall it. When I went to reinstall, I discovered I couldn't use yum. Then I discovered: [root at 13gems qmail-1.03]# yum install openssl -bash: /usr/bin/yum: No such file or directory [root at 13gems qmail-1.03]# man yum Floating point exception [root at 13gems

alright, i think i installed wine on my new aspire one, the problem is, i used the root, yum wine way, is this how you install it? also, i want to make sure it does work with the aspire one (that uses linpus, fedora based)? and then after i installed wine, i tried to install a game, which i then tried to load up and it didnt work, is there a special way of installing games through wine? ok,

Hello everyone, I'm new here and I need a little bit of help. I'm running WINE 0.9.59 on Ubuntu 7.04 For starters I'm trying to get steam games to work on wine. I can get steam installed, and I log in fine. but when I go to launch a game it says "the latest version of Microsoft DirectX is needed to play this game" So I look around the internet on how to installed dx on

I started using wine and used it to play return to Castle Wolfenstein which worked great. I installed Adobe Acrofat 7 Professional and now all of the wines menus are small and unreadable. Like this: [Image: http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/1958/winescreende9.png ] By lsearcey (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/lsearcey) at 2008-03-29 Any ideas on how to fix this? I tried uninstalling Adobe

Hi list I'm new here, but I've been using CentOS for about 2 years. I had some problems today, there was a blackout and I couldn't poweroff my machine on the right way, when I turn on the machine again everything when right until the dialogo Activating swap/fstab. the pc freezed there and didn't go on, my question is,what was going on and how can I resolve that without

Note: This is on Slackware 13 if it makes any difference. (Note: I am quite clued up about the CLI/text/server bits of linux but once it gets to Xorg or sound I'm quite clueless) Note: this is all without installing WoW within either wine or crossover , just running it straight from disk 1. I had installed the wine that comes in slackbuilds, 1.1.24 I tried a few programs and for example