Wine RedHat and an AMD K6-2

drumltd · 10-01-2003, 01:50 PM

Anybody any Advice on getting an AMD K6-2 with RH9 to run wine? I've tried all three of the binaries on SourceForge, and they all give different errors.

Does anybody know how I can get it to work, if I compile the sources can I set it up for the K6-2 easily, and if so what's involved in doing this?

BTW I have RH9 and Wine working on a couple of other intel based machines so I've got the basics right, just need help with this dodgy old processor :-)

TIA

Dave

Mara · 10-01-2003, 01:54 PM

It works OK when compiled from source. Just standard procedure.

Maybe you're missing certain dependencies?

drumltd · 10-01-2003, 03:00 PM

I've only tried the binaries so far, I was hoping one of those might work, I'll double check the dependencies before I try the source compilation method.

JohnGalt00 · 10-01-2003, 04:55 PM

man. Just given you've gotten wine running on rh9, count yourself lucky. I've been trying for a while now and haven't gotten Diablo II or quicken to work yet.

If the i386 rpm didn't work for you, you probably will have to compile from source.

Mega Man X · 10-01-2003, 04:57 PM

You could try using apt-get with wine repositories

Mega Man X · 10-01-2003, 05:00 PM

Here:

http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat...0408-1.src.rpm

Add this at your /etc/apt/source.list or source.list.rpmsave. The update your apt-get:

apt-get update

and install wine:

apt-get install wine

It cannot get any easier then that, assuming you know what apt-get/synaptic are

JohnGalt00 · 10-01-2003, 06:02 PM

I can install the rpms, or compile from source just fine. Getting it to do anything else is the tricky part.

coolamit78 · 10-01-2003, 07:59 PM

Well...I have an AMD K6 400 MHz too...and I am proud to say that it still rocks!....Infact I have seen many of the P3 500 MHz machines suck in terms of performance when compared with my AMD...

Anyways....So I have AMD K6 400 Mhz, RedHat 9 and wine too....and it works fine...although I havent been successful in getting MS Office 2000 to work...but thats another issue...

There are basically 2 types of wine distributions around.....

1. The one developed by Wine HQ
2. One developed by CodeWeavers

I did a search before I was to install wine on my system and I found that Codeweavers wine was working well with RedHat 9...However after that, Wine HQ also released their version for RH 9.....

I have the codeweaver's wine and it installed without any errors...Then I downloaded the 'winetools' from frankscorner.org and created the ~/.config file and the fake_windows partition using it. so I have had no problem installing small applications like notepad, solitaire, freecell, Winamp 2.91 and JetAudio 4.81.

Try installing codeweavers wine on your AMD....and RH 9 of course!......(my version was codeweaversxxxxx-20020904.i386.rpm)
sorry...i dont remember the exact name....but hope that will help...

amit

Mega Man X · 10-02-2003, 01:50 AM

Strange that everybody is using winetools to make a fake_c drive. When I installed the rpm, I simply tried to run an application as

wine kazaa.exe

and Wine automatically created the directories (into ./wine) added the dll's and everything. The first time takes a long time to make it to load the application (creating fonts and everything) but after that it runs flawless. The same applied for WineX for me. It self-created ./transgaming drive with dll's and everything at Redhat 7.3, 9.0, Slackware 9.0 and now JAMD... (?).

drumltd · 10-02-2003, 11:43 AM

Thanks guys, I can confirm that none of the RPM for RedHat9 work with a K6-2 However once I downloaded the sources and compiled them locally all is working fine.

Thanks for the help.