wine users - May 2002 - [Bug 744] Changed - Cyclic "unhandled exception" error

--- Pavel Øezníèek <pavel.reznicek@wo.cz> wrote:
> I have made some steps and it helped me a bit: Wine
> already does run!
I'm glad for you! Closing the bug.
> The most important thing is that I have configured
> Wine to run with a fake 
> partition.
> 
> But there are a few more problems left.
> 
> 1) What's the reason that under KDE 2.0.0 & 2.0.1
> Wine worked perfectly on a 
> real FAT32 partition but now it doesn't (KDE 3.0.0)?
The original reasons Wine fails with native Windows
are:
  a) Wine uses dlls from Windows. Native Windows ME
dlls probably use a lot of new calls which are not
implemented in Wine.
  b) imported registry could have some settings which
confused Wine

The goal of Wine is to use buildin dlls only, so you
do not need microsoft license.
I really don't know why it stopped to work after the
KDE update.
> 2) It works on the fake partition. I have made
> symlinks from my WinME system 
> dll's to the fake /Windows/System directory. Is it a
> good way?
I think you can safely replace the fake directory with
real one if you want to. Symlinks are fine too.
Just take care that buildin dlls are used if you do
not have any specific reasons to use native ones (see
.wine/config file for details).
Remember, in this registry is not imported from
Windows.
> 3) I can't run a program that uses soundcard. It can
> happen because Winecheck 
> said this:
> 
> --------------------- checking system devices used
> by Wine 
> ---------------------
> 031. Checking sound device /dev/dsp...              
>        CRITICAL (no 
> kernel driver for /dev/dsp?).
> - ADVICE: module loading problems ? Read 
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt.
> 
> But I have no such doc file / directory on my
> distribution... where can I get 
> / do I have it? What does this mean? How to tell
> Wine where I have the 
> soundcard device? The sound works in my KDE.
> - I have also found a /dev/dsp1 file - isn't this
> the real sound device -- 
> maybe "dsp" only is required by default by wine??
You can find documentation online here:
http://docs.winehq.com
See User Guide.

This can also help sometimes:
http://www.winehq.com/trouble

Read the docs, post question to wine-users mailing
list.
I'm not very good in resolving issues with soundcards.
It's possible you need go give some privileges for
/dev/dsp1 if you want to use it.
> 4) How can I change the appearance of Windows in
> Wine (e. g. fonts, colors of 
> menus)? Do I have to edit the registry on the fake
> drive?
About fonts - check out documentation and
~/.wine/config. Other appearance - don't know.

Andriy

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