Re: wineprefix: Create a cdrom drive if it exists at /media/cdrom
On 6/1/06, Jesse Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about the device node symlink? It's needed for the games alot and it's the number one thing I get asked for help for now. We don't have an easy way to detect it, although HAL should be able fix it. Right well that's us being borked somewhere ... Alexandre has said on IRC that we shouldn't actually need the x:: symlink anymore :)
Re: wineprefix: Create a cdrom drive if it exists at /media/cdrom
On 6/1/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The location CD drives are mounted changes between systems, this patch is essentially specific to yours. Wine already supports HAL, which should solve this in a more correct manner (though we have reports it doesn't work for some games!), so how comes that's not enough? thanks -mike What about the device node symlink? It's needed for the games alot and it's the number one thing I get asked for help for now. We don't have an easy way to detect it, although HAL should be able fix it. Jesse
Re: wineprefix: Create a cdrom drive if it exists at /media/cdrom
"Vincent Povirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So the HAL thing doesn't work for everyone, and this works for a lot > of people. When you see /media/cdrom, you can be sure it's a cd-rom > drive. So why not use it? Because HAL is supposed to work (assuming you have the proper libraries), and if it doesn't work this should be investigated and fixed. And once it's fixed, the drives created manually are going to interfere with it. -- Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wineprefix: Create a cdrom drive if it exists at /media/cdrom
On 6/1/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The location CD drives are mounted changes between systems, this patch is essentially specific to yours. Wine already supports HAL, which should solve this in a more correct manner (though we have reports it doesn't work for some games!), so how comes that's not enough? thanks -mike I think /media/cdrom is actually some sort of standard. A google search led me to http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT I don't know where this standard gets any authority, but most modern linux distros I've seen do have a /media/cdrom directory. If there is a /media/cdrom, one can assume that it is the cd-rom drive (whichever has a cd in it) without relying on HAL at all. A quick test shows that wine 0.9.14, with a clean .wine directory, can install worms: armageddon but not run it (it couldn't find the cd, probably because wine didn't find it). Simply /media/cdrom as d: and using autodetection is enough to make it work. So the HAL thing doesn't work for everyone, and this works for a lot of people. When you see /media/cdrom, you can be sure it's a cd-rom drive. So why not use it? -- Vincent Povirk
Re: wineprefix: Create a cdrom drive if it exists at /media/cdrom
The location CD drives are mounted changes between systems, this patch is essentially specific to yours. Wine already supports HAL, which should solve this in a more correct manner (though we have reports it doesn't work for some games!), so how comes that's not enough? thanks -mike
Re: wineprefix: Create a cdrom drive if it exists at /media/cdrom
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Mike McCormack wrote: +ln -s /media/cdrom "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/m:" Wouldn't it be better to create it as the d: drive? That's usually where CD-ROM drives end up on Windows... -- Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fgouget.free.fr/ War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
