wine users - Jun 2010 - Morrowind GOTY on Darwine - empty resolution list?

I hope it's ok to ask about Darwine on these forums. I installed Morrowind
GOTY on OSX using Darwine and it starts. But I can't set a resolution as the
list of resolutions is empty. It recognises an NVIDIA graphics card but no
resolutions. Any ideas how to get this working? Thanks

stodge wrote:
> I hope it's ok to ask about Darwine on these forums. I installed
Morrowind GOTY on OSX using Darwine and it starts. But I can't set a
resolution as the list of resolutions is empty. It recognises an NVIDIA graphics
card but no resolutions. Any ideas how to get this working? Thanks
>
>   
Darwine is basically abandonware.

Can you provide more information on your Mac?  Is it an Intel Mac (Intel 
based) processor or a PowerPC based processor?

James McKenzie

It is? Ouch, didn't realise that. What's the current alternative?

It's a new i7 Intel MacBook Pro.

Sorry - I should have mentioned I was using WineBottler. I installed WineSkin
and hit the same problem. Will investigate more. Thanks

stodge wrote:
> Sorry - I should have mentioned I was using WineBottler. I installed
WineSkin and hit the same problem. Will investigate more. Thanks
>
>   
Are you having difficulties setting a screen resolution?  This needs to 
be reported on the WineBottler Trac.

James McKenzie

I don't know. Morrowind's resolution list is empty, so I presumed Wine
isn't configured properly or not reporting the correct graphics
card/resolutions.

you need to use a virtual desktop... Xquartz X11 does not have RANDR.  Wine apps
will only see 1 resolution, the one your running when it checks.  If you run in
a virtual desktop, that problem wont exist, as the window can resize and change
all it wants...

If you use Wineskin, and run it in fullscreen mode, you should have several
options it detects.  If the resolution you want to run isn't detected, you
can set a resolution in WineskinSettings.app and it will be available in the
program, and run fullscreen and change the resolution for you if its different
than normal.  Wineskin has its own version of Xquartz built in, so your X11.app
doesn't really matter.

Speaking of RANDR in Xquartz, I'm playing with some code I'm tying to
get to work to add that, written by someone else other than me, and submitted to
Xquartz, so it may be available in the near future... I can't get it running
perfectly (yet), but I'm going to work on maybe cleaning it up to work good
in Wineskin, even if its not great for all X11 apps.

James McKenzie wrote:
> 
> xrandr is on the 'to do' list.  I don't know if it was pushed
out to 2.6
> or if it will make it into the 2.5 series somewhere.  I do know that 
> Apple's X11, based on 2.3.5 does not have it.
> 
> James McKenzie

nothing has it yet... but someone was nice enough to start the process with a
basic version.. though I haven't gotten their code to function that great..
or at all.. yet... but I've been playing with it.

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/2010-June/002882.html

the mailing list contains patch files for adding in what was made... which helps
bring it closer to a reality.

doh123 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>Sent: Jun 29, 2010 8:53 PM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: [Wine]  Re: Morrowind GOTY on Darwine - empty resolution list?
>
>
>
>nothing has it yet... but someone was nice enough to start the process with
a basic
>version.. though I haven't gotten their code to function that great.. or
at all..
>yet... but I've been playing with it.
Keep us updated on your progress.  xrandr is essential for some X11 functions
and should be for fullscreen desktop resolutions.

James McKenzie