wine users - Feb 2009 - Newbie - missing cursor and unresponsive to input

Hello everyone,

          I have just discovered wine and have to try it, 
but I am running into problems that I can't google my way out of.
          I installed wine-1.1.12 using yum on my quad cpu (Nvidia 9500gt, usb
qwerty keyboard and mouse) running fedora10 (2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64)  and
as a test, I decided to use GTA2 (download).

         After the install, I copied mscoree.dll, streamci.dll, dinput.dll, 
dinput8.dll  ddrawex.dll from windows XP and put them in system32, installed the
latest directx from microsoft.com and then ran winecfg and set those to native
as well as a few others I found on a how-to page (the full list attached below).
All the boxes under graphics->windows setting are checked.

          I then ran dxdiag. There were a few messages on the console regarding
GL and sound, but it claimed that the key and mouse inputs were fine.

           I then downloaded GTA2 and installed it from "Program
File"(wine gta2.exe), installshield came up and seemed to work (with a few
error mesgs). I ran it and it popped up a window and it looked great, good sound
effects and everything.

           The problem is that this window is responsive only to the first key
press, then it is completely unresponsive. The cursor is also missing as soon as
I roll it inside the wine window. It is not responsive to mouse clicks. It
doesn't matter if I run it in a window or fullscreen (using gta2 manager)

            Is there something I am missing? I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks.


d3d8"="builtin"
"d3d9"="builtin"
"d3dim"="native"
"d3drm"="native"
"d3dx8"="native"
"d3dx9_24"="native"
"d3dx9_25"="native"
"d3dx9_26"="native"
"d3dx9_27"="native"
"d3dx9_28"="native"
"d3dx9_29"="native"
"d3dx9_30"="native"
"d3dx9_31"="native"
"d3dx9_32"="native"
"d3dx9_33"="native"
"d3dx9_34"="native"
"d3dx9_35"="native"
"d3dx9_36"="native"
"d3dxof"="native"
"dciman32"="native"
"ddrawex"="native"
"devenum"="native"
"dinput"="native,builtin"
"dinput8"="native,builtin"
"dmband"="native"
"dmcompos"="native"
"dmime"="native"
"dmloader"="native"
"dmscript"="native"
"dmstyle"="native"
"dmusic"="native"
"dmusic32"="native"
"dnsapi"="native"
"dplay"="native"
"dplayx"="native"
"dpnaddr"="native"
"dpnet"="native"
"dpnhpast"="native"
"dpnlobby"="native"
"dsound"="builtin"
"dswave"="native"
"dxdiagn"="native"
"mscoree"="native"
"msdmo"="native"
"msxml3"="native,builtin"
"qcap"="native"
"quartz"="native"
"streamci"="native"

Thatpenguin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote on Feb
12th:
>
>          I have just discovered wine and have to try it, 
>but I am running into problems that I can't google my way out of.
Maybe you should have tried the Wine Application Database.  It has hints and
tricks on how to get many programs working with Wine.
>          I installed wine-1.1.12 using yum on my quad cpu (Nvidia 9500gt,
usb qwerty keyboard and mouse) running fedora10 (2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64) 
and as a test, I decided to use GTA2 (download).
>
What Linux distribution are you using?  Most distributions have Wine 1.1.14
available and this is the version you should try first.
>         After the install, I copied mscoree.dll, streamci.dll, dinput.dll, 
dinput8.dll  >ddrawex.dll from windows XP and put them in system32,
Actually, these should be placed in the same location as the program you are
running.
>installed the latest directx from microsoft.com and then ran winecfg and set
those to native as >well as a few others I found on a how-to page (the full
list attached below). All the boxes under graphics->windows setting are
checked.
There should be no need to install DirectX9 from Microsoft.  Please do the
following:

Open a terminal session.
Type in 'mv .wine{,.backup}
type in wine notepad
Install GTA2 from the installation disks.

Copy only the dlls above into the same directory as the GTA2 executable.

Set the dlls to "native,builtin" in winecfg.

Run dxdiag and report back the results.  

See that happens when you run GTA2.  Also, please review the Applications
Database for any additional how-tos on installing this program.