Wine problems

[Guest]

I am brand new (less than 2 days experience) at trying to run Linux. I decided to go with Kubuntu because it seemed something close to windows would allow me transition more easily. I am trying to use Wine to run some programs, but it seems to be hitting trouble.

I installed Wine through the add/remove programs in the menu, and was trying to test it following directions from http://kubuntu101.blogspot.com/2005/...ling-wine.html. I downloaded the winzip120 to the wine drive_c, and when I entered

wine c:\winzip120.exe

it came up with a window that seemed like it should work. It allowed me to start installing the program, then it hits this:

fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"shawn" (nil) 0x33f7fc (nil) 0x33f800 0x33f7f4 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"shawn" 0x130170 0x33f7fc 0x130968 0x33f800 0x33f7f4 - stub
err:msi:ACTION_CallDllFunction failed to load dll L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msi204a.tmp"

Also, when I try to run World of Warcraft it opens it just fine, and runs the opening cinematics, then when it gets to the login screen, it just gives me a black background. I can see the cursor, and can exit through the esc key. I am running off the onboard amd radeon x1200 video, so I'm not sure if this is an issue with the video card not being up to snuff (which I was told it should be for basic video settings) or if this is an issue with the Wine itself. I would appreciate any help that people can give.

[The Liquidator]

Re: Wine problems

Hi and welcome to the wonderful world of Linux.

I found in my earlier days with wine that to make some of the more complex applications run (like Quicken) I needed to be able to access the windows Dlls and so I set the wine drive c (within wine config) to be the actual windows partition.

Recent implementations of wine won't allow you to do that, however. Basically if something went wrong you could wreck windows. There is an answer though - copy the dlls from within the windows system 32 file into the system 32 folder within your home/wine directory. I'm not on my linux machine at the moment but think that folder will be a hidden file so from within your file manager select view/view hidden files and you should then see your wine folder.

Once you have done that, try installing something. If you take a look through adept, you should find some interesting alternatives to Winzip already exist for Linux. IIRC I read that WoW should work but you might have better results with Crossover, which is a commercial derivative of Wine.

Good luck!

Ian

PS you shouldn't download anything to the wine folder as that is tantamount to saving it to the windows directory. Simply save to home/documents and install from there.

[Gediminas2]

Re: Wine problems

On all questions regarding running apps on wine, please visit http://appdb.winehq.com

[Guest]

Re: Wine problems

A little more information on the WoW problem. Was able to run it from terminal, and kept getting a repetitive message as follows:

fixme:d3d_shader:shader_glsl_select >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glUseProgramObjectARB @ glsl_shader.c / 3454
fixme:d3d_draw:drawStridedFast >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glDrawElements @ drawprim.c / 266

Since I know little of coding ( working on it ) I'm not sure if that's telling me it's an issue with the Wine or the Vid card.

As for the winehq, i had a bit of a problem actually disseminating the information on there, and getting anything useful from what they had there.

[DracoTB]

Re: Wine problems

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft

Pretty much everything you need to know about running WoW in (K)Ubuntu.