Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-24 Thread Randy Kramer
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this! I caught your message when I was back scanning the threads. Lyvim, No problem, thanks for replying! Lyvim, Questions: Have you ever tried any of the dcop (or kdcop) stuff for interprocess communication among apps?

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Randy, Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this! I caught your message when I was back scanning the threads. On Wednesday 13 February 2002 19:38, you wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If so you're probably exposed to every KDE component known to man. ;) I think KDE is great; well,

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-14 Thread Randy Kramer
Hoyt Duff wrote: Are you able to cut and paste between KDE apps and AbiWord? I cannot. Hoyt, Interesting, no I cannot. I can cut from AbiWord (0.9.2) and paste to kde apps using the middle mouse button, but cannot go the other way with either the middle mouse button or ctrlc, ctrlv.

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
One odd thing I've had happen intermittently, is that just maybe 1 in 10 sessions, KDE's system guard will pop up...I don't crash, or lockup, but I have to restart D2... Not sure what its supposed to be finding that is objectionable... Hmmm. That IS strange! From what you're saying it

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Monday 11 February 2002 16:20, you wrote: But...something has actually been removed from the Transgaming version. They didn't (apparently) take a good version of wine and add to it with their dx stuff, they did something unnecessary and removed functionality at the same time. ALL

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Hmmm. That IS strange! From what you're saying it sounds like you've got the whole KDE desktop loaded, taskbar and all. Is that right? Yes, I'm afraid I'm spoiled by having everything handy... ;-) Maybe if you tried temporarily switching to another WM that you like

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If so you're probably exposed to every KDE component known to man. ;) I think KDE is great; well, let me restate thatI love the apps. But the desktop is a little too restrictive for my personal taste, so I run pure Enlightenment (with NO gnome anything) and then

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:38 pm, you wrote: This has been a real blast. I've got total latitude on the desktop, plus I can mooch the apps from whatever environment has the best one. Abiword is a gtk app (I think) that I use also, more often that kword. Just for information,

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-12 Thread James
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

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: No, as a matter of fact I was curious enough to track down some other threads of yours, and I saw that you were talking about being on a small net with your kids. That's kind of where I'm at now; except I've still got another windoze machine and haven't yet loaded LM81

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'd be ecstatic if you could let me know about your network escapades regarding Baldur's Gate 2. I'm dying to know if that part of it is working ok. I've got another machine here, but it's going to take me a bit to get that system up and configured on the net. I

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-11 Thread Michael Leone
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 13:51, daRcmaTTeR wrote: If you Really want to be able to effectively and painlessly be able to run windows apps in from your Linux installation the only sane way of doing this reliably is with Win4Lin. It is, without a doubt, the best thing since sliced bread, for

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-10 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
What did you do to get IE running? Were you working from a windows partition or did you install IE from a cdrom? On Thursday 07 February 2002 21:13, you wrote: Your applet runs fine. mspaint.exe doesn't run with winex *only*. I CAN run it with codeweavers wine and with winehq's wine. I

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-10 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
I'd be ecstatic if you could let me know about your network escapades regarding Baldur's Gate 2. I'm dying to know if that part of it is working ok. I've got another machine here, but it's going to take me a bit to get that system up and configured on the net. I guess I'm assuming that you

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-09 Thread James
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:18:28 -0600 Richard Wenninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 08 February 2002 08:15 am, you wrote: I installed the prebuilt rpm. I tried: WineX-1.0-2 and WineX-1.0-3 rpms, the latest preview 5 of codeweavers-wine, and the latest stripped winehq binary. Upon

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Praedor: I don't know what your problem is, but what I can say is that it's related to your system, and not Winex. I can tell you that I've had unprecedented success with installing and running Baldur's Gate 2a game of such size and complexity that I NEVER expected to see this soon in

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Darklord: Have you tried networking BG2, by any chance? Nope, sorry. I don't have Baldurs Gate 2... (not yet!) Since I see you've got it working, I'll probably go out to the local Wal-mart and pick up a copy just to see what damage I can do! big grin See ya! --

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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. My experience with winex has been very good. It doesn't

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing. I don't get it. WineX is supposed to be REAL compatible with

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Praedor Tempus wrote: 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

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
I installed the prebuilt rpm. I tried: WineX-1.0-2 and WineX-1.0-3 rpms, the latest preview 5 of codeweavers-wine, and the latest stripped winehq binary. Upon installing a new wine version I always run a quick test to get a general feel as to how well it will likely do the job. Basically,

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-08 Thread Richard Wenninger
On Friday 08 February 2002 08:15 am, you wrote: I installed the prebuilt rpm. I tried: WineX-1.0-2 and WineX-1.0-3 rpms, the latest preview 5 of codeweavers-wine, and the latest stripped winehq binary. Upon installing a new wine version I always run a quick test to get a general feel as to

[expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing. I don't get it. WineX is supposed to be REAL compatible with Mandrake 8.1 (it is the

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 12:45 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing. Boy, months of work and

RE: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread David Joham
] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1 On Thursday 07 February 2002 12:45 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed WineX 1.0-2 on my system and it doesn't work at all. NOTHING will run from it. Not notepad, not IE, not wordpad, nothing. All it does is tickle the harddrive for an instant and then nothing

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
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

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
Oh and one more thing...since installing WineX on my system, it has slowed to a miserable crawl. Lots and lots and lots of disk-thrashing even if I am not running wine/winex. It has done something evil to my system - almost like trying to run Mandrake on a 64 MB system. LOTS of swapping

RE: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread David Joham
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

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
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 uninstalled and

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 07 February 2002 03:25 pm, David Joham 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

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
Your applet runs fine. mspaint.exe doesn't run with winex *only*. I CAN run it with codeweavers wine and with winehq's wine. I can also run IE, wordpad, notepad, etc - just not with winex. The other wines work and the winex complains about libMFC42 and/or mmx. I can only conclude that