On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:57 +0000, Stefan DÃsinger wrote: > > 1) It's always on top of all other windows,on all > > workspaces of GNOME, which is very annoying, and makes > > it impossible to try HL2. If clicked while HL2 is on startup > > screen it will crash the game. > I've sent a patch to wine-patches some time ago, but it wasn't accepted > because it's wrong. The link is > http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2005/03/0504.html > > You may try it, it fixes Steam in this aspect, but it may break other apps.
Ok, perhaps I'll give it a try... why not fix the patch? > > 2) If you click on any game, go to Update News, it will crash > > every time. If there are Update News when Steam is started, it > > will crash (but it will work after that). Here's the output, although it > > doesn't look very helpful to me: > Do you have IE6 installed. Do you use the native shdocvw, mshtml and shlwapi > dlls? What winver have you set? No, this is pure wine installation, without a single windows dll. I don't have IE6. winver is whatever is the default (win98?) > I don't have Steam installed right now, but I know that those things are > fragile. I've set the above dlls to native, winver = winxp. This way no > things are shown, but Steam doesn't crash. Well, I think it's easier if I just don't click on Update News :) I just wanted to report the problem so it can be fixed. I can help debug. > It's possible to get this thing to > work somehow, (winver = win98, native dlls and a correct ie6 installation, > native dcom I think and a few other native dlls), but as I said, it's > fragile. I don't have windows - I wouldn't consider this getting it to work... > > ALSA lib control.c:739:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL plug:hw:0 > Half-life and friends are broken for me with the alsa driver. I get sound with the alsa driver in Warcraft III, Frozen Throne, Diablo, and Half Life 2... it just spits out those errors for some reason. -- Ivan Gyurdiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cornell University