Hey guys. Kind of new to the linux world here. I love the idea of WINE but I haven't been able to get anything to work yet. Perhaps you guys can help me if you've had similar issues? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 on a Macbook-1,1. Everything outside of wine works fine other than bad repositories, but that's another story. [Wink] Below is a list of applications I'm having problems with. World of Warcraft - Did the installation through WINE. Updated to the most recent patch. Will play the opening video and then hang immediately. Will not run anything past the start-up, ie no log-in screen. F.E.A.R - Gold edition - Asks for DVD/CD to play if its not in. CD/DVD doesn't read or open in WINE, starting manually with CD/DVD in it will give me the configuration, but won't load afterwards. Braid - Will not load at all. Morrowind: GotY DVD with both Expansions - Installed through WINE, will start with or without the dvd in, but won't do anything after the opening Bethesda video. Plants vs. Zombies (compressed in z7) - Will not open in z7. Though z7 did appear to install right. DirectX - Would not install. Necessary? Anyways, that's just a few. Looks like Ventrilo works, don't seem to have a problem installing anything, just a lot of things hanging. I guess I'm missing important dlls or something? No amount of reading or internet search has helped me figure this out.
thistimearound wrote:> Hey guys. Kind of new to the linux world here. I love the idea of WINE but I haven't been able to get anything to work yet. Perhaps you guys can help me if you've had similar issues? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 on a Macbook-1,1. Everything outside of wine works fine other than bad repositories, but that's another story. [Wink] Below is a list of applications I'm having problems with. > > World of Warcraft - Did the installation through WINE. Updated to the most recent patch. Will play the opening video and then hang immediately. Will not run anything past the start-up, ie no log-in screen.That runs natively on Mac OS X. Or, do you like Linux more? (I know Alexandre Julliard does. He's in charge of the entire Wine project.) By the way, you're not trying to run it in OpenGL mode, are you? Something that Blizzard did broke OpenGL on Windows (and therefore, in Wine). (If they broke OpenGL on Mac OS X, I'm sure a lot of people would get angry because DirectX isn't available there :).> > F.E.A.R - Gold edition - Asks for DVD/CD to play if its not in. CD/DVD doesn't read or open in WINE, starting manually with CD/DVD in it will give me the configuration, but won't load afterwards. > > Braid - Will not load at all. > > Morrowind: GotY DVD with both Expansions - Installed through WINE, will start with or without the dvd in, but won't do anything after the opening Bethesda video.For all three of these, we need terminal output. If it's short, post it here, else put it up on a site like pastebin or something, and link to it here.> > Plants vs. Zombies (compressed in z7) - Will not open in z7. Though z7 did appear to install right.Why is it compressed? Have you considered that that's the problem? If it's not, post terminal output.> > DirectX - Would not install. Necessary?Maybe. Depends on the game. Note that native ddraw, d3d, and dsound won't work. The only useful DLLs are d3dx9_<nn> and dplay/dplayx.> > Anyways, that's just a few. Looks like Ventrilo works,Uhh, Ventrilo is Mac OS-native too. I think it's awesome that you like Linux, but I'm just saying, since you have a Mac and it comes with Mac OS X, you might as well take advantage of it. By the way, Wine runs on Mac OS X, too. But it may be more trouble than it's worth. (For me it's not; I like a challenge.)
To be honest with you, I love Mac OS X. But I really like Ubuntu. I wanted to give it a try, and my Macbook is out of warranty now, so I figured now is a good time. As for programs, trust me, I know which ones are native or not, but my hard drive was fried, so on my new hard drive I figured I'd start fresh. As it turns out, my new desktop coming in on Monday will have no OS so even if I do go back to OS X on my laptop, I'm probably going to want to get this stuff figured out one way or another... because I REALLY hate Windows. Anyways. What kind of terminal output do you need and how do I get that for you? How do I know if I'm trying to run in OpenGL or not? I didn't see an option anywhere.
@James: I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, not OS X. Apple didn't hide anything from me. As for running things in the terminal, I ran Plants Vs Zombies and actually got it to work! So that's a start; it did leave this behind though: http://pastebin.com/m2e3166e3 Working on getting the Morrowind output to pasebin atm.
James McKenzie wrote:> thistimearound wrote: > > > err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered > > > > > > err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered > > > > > I don't know what class this comes from, however a quick Google for the > string brought up an entry from the debian and Ubuntu forums. They > state that this may be coming from D3D.I have not seen those errors do any harm so far, and they're also the most common errors found by wineoops: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2010-January/080965.html
While I'm reading your replies guys (thanks a lot, btw) I've got the output from WoW. I did> wine Wow.exe -opengland the output wasn't as massive. However, without the "-opengl" tag WoW has far too much text to copy paste, just like Morrowind. Here it is: http://pastebin.com/m3ed31bde As an aside, I've gotten Steam to install. z7 seems to be working now. Ventrilo is fine. Haven't tried anything else yet, but I would like to give Firefox a whirl in there later, or maybe find some other way to install flash into Wine. So all in all, I seem to be having true video/gaming problems. At least that's my very raw and inexperienced guess.