Help installing wine please

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-19-2007, 03:15 PM

I haven't noticed much stability difference between 2.4 and 2.6 kernel versions. It's wine that's unstable.

Nem · 03-19-2007, 10:51 PM

Oh,
How I execute a windows install
is just right click on the .exe install file
and type wine and pick always use this for
opening .exe then you can execute it from
there.

robcult731 · 03-20-2007, 04:00 AM

Thanks but what do I do about this problem

Quote:

Originally Posted by me a few posts ago

It's working! ...sort of, I can get the game to launch but it crashes my laptop with a nasty looking colourful messed-up screen - I get the intro of "game of the year" etc then when the game trys to start it just has a phit of colour and freezes, any ideas?

...would help but as you can see im a n00b sorry

*Also when I try the Soldier Of Fortune 2 demo, when I try to play that I get a message come up saying

"It is highly unlikely that the windowed display can be initialized with the current depth.

Select "Ok" to try anyway.
Select "Cancel" to try a fullscreen mode instead"

...now it doesn't matter which one i choose because the game just crashes like the half-life demo?

robcult731 · 03-21-2007, 06:34 AM

Asked this on the wine help forum and another linux forum and have gotten no replys from either, i can't be the only one this has happened to could i?

robcult731 · 03-22-2007, 08:14 AM

bump? (if that's allowed on this forum

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Alien Bob · 03-22-2007, 03:43 PM

The problem that you see with wine is caused by the fact that you installed some recent Slackware 11.0 patches among which was an updated version of the x11 package.
This package overwrites the OpenGL driver file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so that is installed at least by the proprietary NVIDIA driver (and perhaps by the Ati driver as well but I don't use Ati so I can't tell for sure).
As a result, wine crashes your X server the moment when it tries to call OpenGL library functions that the file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so provides - only you now have the wrong file thanks to the package upgrade.
The solution is to fall back out of X (goto runlevel 3 if you were in runlevel 4 and otherwise just quit X) and from the console screen re-install the NVIDIA (or Ati) binary driver for X.
After that, your problems are gone.
I had the same problem.

Eric

robcult731 · 03-23-2007, 01:35 PM

Thanks! I'm being really thick again, Googled "reinstall the Ati binary driver for X slackware 11" and haven't found any good information, how would i go about doing it?