wine users - Apr 2006 - MIDI tools in latest wine, success and ...

Latest and greatest Jammer Pro6 works in latest wine from Debian Sid. No more 
phantom subclassed buttons! Fantastic.

Caveats:
1. MIDI timing seems unsteady.
2. Button on a pop-up dialog that would repaint and replay the MIDI on the 
main view does not work. See below.

Ntonyx Style Enhancer 4 will also install and play in wine!

Caveats:
1. NONE of the icons display--just gray boxes. (Their desktop link icon 
sometimes does not display under Win98, sometimes it does. I do not know what 
they are doing different than anyone else here.)
2. Button on a pop-up dialog that would repaint the main view and alter MIDI 
play if be playing  hangs up.

I suspect threading problems in the Wine emulation for both dialog-main 
problems but not sure. Threading problems may also be effecting MIDI play 
timing.

NOTE: ALL such programs need be run emulating NT,W2K or XP. Wine does NOT 
support thunking.

Question: The new setup dialog (run wine with no argument an click configure) 
apparently is not using the ~/.wine/config file. What does it use? I note 
provision for more than one sound "driver" in that dialog--right now I
only
have OSS (what I chose in ~/.wine/config because others did not work). So:

Are all the sound libraries on winelib as they were or do I need to download 
separate alsa and jack, etc, packages to activate these options? (Using jack 
might solve the timing issues.)

Question: Dx8 (or other) is required by some programs and their installation 
does not find it. How do I get past this test and let wine do the rest?

Le mercredi 26 avril 2006 ? 15:38 +0300, David Baron a ?crit :
[...]
> Question: The new setup dialog (run wine with no argument an click
configure)
> apparently is not using the ~/.wine/config file. What does it use? I note 
It uses the registry (*.reg). 

See:
http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index#HOW-DO-I-CONFIGURE-WINE-TO-RUN-ON-MY-SYSTEM
and
http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/config-wine-main

> provision for more than one sound "driver" in that dialog--right
now I only
> have OSS (what I chose in ~/.wine/config because others did not work). So:
> 
> Are all the sound libraries on winelib as they were or do I need to
download
> separate alsa and jack, etc, packages to activate these options? (Using
jack
> might solve the timing issues.)
That depends on your distribution, it's up to package maintainer to
split these things.
> 
> Question: Dx8 (or other) is required by some programs and their
installation
> does not find it. How do I get past this test and let wine do the rest?
> 
You'll have to give more infos (errors, traces, what application, what
wine version).

Thanks.

David Baron wrote:
> 
> Question: The new setup dialog (run wine with no argument an click
configure)
> apparently is not using the ~/.wine/config file. What does it use? I note 
> provision for more than one sound "driver" in that dialog--right
now I only
> have OSS (what I chose in ~/.wine/config because others did not work). So:
use winecfg for configuration
> 
> Are all the sound libraries on winelib as they were or do I need to
download
> separate alsa and jack, etc, packages to activate these options? (Using
jack
> might solve the timing issues.)
>
debian splits audio support into several different packages; or at least 
that is what it used to do; you can also choose to download packages 
directly from winehq.org, those are updated more frequently then the 
debian packages

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 15:38 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> Caveats:
> 1. MIDI timing seems unsteady. 
Make sure HZ is 1000 in the kernel config.

Lee

David Baron wrote:
>Question: The new setup dialog (run wine with no argument an click
configure)
>apparently is not using the ~/.wine/config file. What does it use? I note 
>provision for more than one sound "driver" in that dialog--right
now I only
>have OSS (what I chose in ~/.wine/config because others did not work). So:
>
>Are all the sound libraries on winelib as they were or do I need to download
>separate alsa and jack, etc, packages to activate these options? (Using jack
>might solve the timing issues.)
>  
>
Hi David:

  Lately I've been using the pre-packaged WINE system from Demudi/Debian 
Etch. The configuration stuff is now done via the wineconf utility (or 
winecfg, I don't remember and I'm away from the relevant machine). WINE 
will cheerfully ignore any previous ~/.wine/config file.

  For Debian, I had to download the libwine-alsa and libwine-jack 
packages before those choices appeared in the wineconf panel. I have not 
severely tested the latest JACK support, I hope it's improving.

Best,

dp