All, In the intrest of making wine work a little bit better I offer this config file tweak I did to the font's section. It seems to make it work faster/better ---snip---
[afmdirs] "1" = "/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/fonts" "2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm" "3" = "/usr/share/enscript" "4" = "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1" "5" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/helvetic" "6" = "/usr/local/open/share/siag/common/fonts" "7" = "/usr/share/eel/fonts/urw" "8" = "/usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe" "9" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/courier" "10" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/avantgar" "11" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/times" "12" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/palatino" "13" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/zapfding" "14" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/ncntrsbk" "15" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/symbol" "16" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/urw/bookman" "17" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter" "19" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/helvetic" "20" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/courier" "21" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/times" "22" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/palatino" "23" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/ncntrsbk" "24" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/avantgar" "25" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/zapfchen" "26" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/symbol" "27" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/utopia" "28" = "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/bookman" "29" = "/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts" ---snip---- There are more .afm font's in Mandrake 8.1 but these alone seem to vastly improve performance. James On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:25:40 -0700 "David Joham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't tried 1.02, but I have tried 1.03 with good success. I don't > have a libMFC42.so either, so maybe that's a change between versions. > > Can you remove 1.02 and install 1.03? When you do, you *should* get lots > of stuff in /usr/lib/transgaming.... > > It should also create a .transgaming directory in your home directory. > In that directory, will be the configuration file and a c_drive > directory. > > Are you sure there aren't zombie processes of wineserver running on your > machine slowing it down? Try shutting down X and starting back up. Does > that help? > > I'll send you privately a little Delphi application that I wrote for you > to test with. It works "out of the box" on my system (over remote X to > boot) and we'll see what happens on yours. > > Best regards, > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Praedor Tempus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1 > > > On Thursday 07 February 2002 01:43 pm, David Joham wrote: > > With all due respect, instead of arbitrary complaints, perhaps a "I > > tried this and it didn't work-any suggestions?" Email might be more > > constructive :) > > > > Unless you were just venting. In that case, I understand. > > I'm venting. What I am trying to accomplish is to simply get it to > work, > period. > > I install it, run winex, and it doesn't do anything - OK, it DOES create > a > config file in my .transgaming directory but it does NOT create a fake > c:\windows drive and it apparently doesn't install a critical library > that it > needs to run: libMFC42.so. > > Doing a search on my system and there is NO libMFC42 anywhere. This is > a > very winex-specific file but it apparently didn't install it? Or if it > did, > it doesn't know where it stuck its own file? THIS pisses me off. > > Finally, there is a winesetup binary in the > /usr/lib/transgaming/winex/bin > directory. Running this app produces a tk window similar to something > you'd > see with codeweavers. It doesn't do anything but error out because it > cannot > find yet another file that it should have installed itself (otherwise > why > include this <broken> binary in the first place?). > > All this together is frustrating me to the point of yelling. I paid > Transgaming money and have tried to use their winex several times over > the > months and there is apparently no change at all in the result. There is > > absolutely NO documentation. No instructions. Nothing. There isn't > even > anything useful in regards to my problems on their website under the > various > "Support" headings. I looked. > > Where is libMFC42 and why can't it find it? It is a winex file! I > didn't do > anything wierd, just installed the rpm. Why didn't it create a fake > c:\windows directory or, barring that, why isn't there any documentation > or > instructions on creating all this oneself? > > There. > > praedor > > >
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