This may be a dumb one. For some reason I switched from Fedora 8 to Debian 4. In each case I was running Wine 0.9.58. Same machine with same geForce NV18 video chip. The Rise of Nations: Thrones & etc. demo worked (as I recall) under Fedora but does not run under Debian. The game tells me that the video card is not supported. I checked the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and it seems to have IDed the video chip OK. Not a clue what's different.
On Friday 02 May 2008 08:35:38 pm DRNewcomb wrote:> This may be a dumb one. For some reason I switched from Fedora 8 to Debian > 4. In each case I was running Wine 0.9.58. Same machine with same geForce > NV18 video chip. The Rise of Nations: Thrones & etc. demo worked (as I > recall) under Fedora but does not run under Debian. The game tells me that > the video card is not supported. I checked the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and > it seems to have IDed the video chip OK. Not a clue what's different.Have you installed the nvidia drivers from nvidia.com or the appropriate nvidia-[kernel|glx] packages from Debian? If not, you probably need to take a look at this: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers -- Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080502/5c5c8be3/attachment.pgp
Thanks Paul. Is this one of those issues where Debian's philosophical leanings end up mostly complicating life for the average user? How many more of these will I run into? I'm wondering if I should just chuck it and try a different distribution? I've only been running Debian for a week.
Nvidia driver problem is fixed. Rise of Nations runs. Now we start looking for the next problem.
Dan Kegel wrote:> But that's off topic for this list...Sad but true. I'm downloading Ubuntu now. I think I'll give it a shot. (I need to reconfigure my hard drive to accommodate some of the requirements of ReactOS any way.) I seem to have been doing nothing but fighting with my Debian install since I loaded it. We're adults. I anticipate an amicable separation.