February 2009 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

Re: Simple but awesome demos of Wine?

by Brian Vincent

Oh, by the way, I was using Fedora Core 10. I was pretty impressed with the distro - my Intel wireless card worked out of the box and so did sound. That's the first time I've had that happen on a Dell Latitude notebook. However, sound in Wine didn't work at all. I made absolutely no effort to fix it, but a quick look at the settings showed it was trying to use ALSA. I was hoping Wine's sound had progressed to the point where it would at least work if the underlying distro was using sound in sane manner, which I'm kind of assuming Core 10 does. Is it a packaging issue? -Brian

Feb. 2, 2009

Re: Simple but awesome demos of Wine?

by Brian Vincent

Dan - I just a presentation last week at our local LUG and here's what I did. (And for reference, this is the first time in almost 2 years I've had Linux and Wine loaded on my laptop - I like what you guys did with the place.) 1. I gave the presentation in Powerpoint 2003 and CrossOver Office. I started the presentation on a separate desktop before anyone saw me do it, so they didn't know it was Powerpoint. At the appropriate time during the presentation for eye candy, I pressed ESC and said - "And here's Powerpoint". I also pointed out that it runs so stunningly well that's it's completely unimpressive.. and that's exactly what Wine should be. I also started up Word quickly to show it running. 2. Oh, all of these demos were shortcuts on my desktop so I could start them quickly. 3. I ran Wine's iexplore.exe and let it load winehq.org. Then I explained some architecture stuff like how it was a Wine MSHTML.DLL connecting to a Windows Gecko engine for rendering. It was also a brief intro intro into what a Winelib app was. 4. Then I VERY briefly showed off Wine's regedit, mostly as an intro for folks to understand Wine has a registry. 5. Finally, I ran 3DMark2001SE to show off 3D. I wish I could have gotten 3DMark05 or 06 running, and I suspect I could have with some prodding, but they do seem to require a software purchase and license key to do anything cool. At least 01 is D3D8 and there's good demo's that don't require a license key. 01 does have some good eye candy - I let the demos run for about 10 minutes while I used a whiteboard to illustrate some architecture stuff with Wine. Note: if you run 3D demos on a projector you might want to consider using desktop mode. I got lucky and the projector was ok with the resolution resizing and it only had a bit of a glitch. I do suspect a lot of projectors will be unhappy with Wine changing resolutions. I considered showing off a real game, like WoW or Call of Duty, but the real problem was the sheer size of the downloads - 600MB and the install size, 16GB, which my little laptop just wasn't up for since I was putting the 3D demo together at the last minute. Also, I wanted something that would run automatically that I didn't have to interact with, hence the 3DMark01 demo. 6. You might want to consider showing off Google's Picasa and it's custom Wine implementation. I almost did.. and you'd know even more about the guts of that. -Brian

Feb. 2, 2009

Re: deb packages archive down?

by Scott Ritchie

Tom Wickline wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to access the Wine deb archives for about > six hours now and Ive been receiving a "connection to the server was reset" > error. I'm not sure how long this has been the case but can the maintainer > of the archive please look into this failure? > > http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html > I'm the maintainer for reference. I'm not sure what caused the downtime, but it's back up now so there's nothing further to do. It's possible it was a connectivity/routing issue rather than a software problem. Thanks, Scott Ritchie

Feb. 2, 2009

Re: Simple but awesome demos of Wine?

by Dan Kegel

Thanks, the simple way worked great. On Feb 1, 2009 10:29 PM, "Ben Klein" <shacklein(a)gmail.com> wrote: 2009/2/2 Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com>: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote: >> I'm going to be giving a Wine... 1) Most simple way: img { border: none } 2) More advanced: img:link, img:visited { border: none } Method 1 removes borders on all images as the default. Method 2 restricts removing the borders to hyperlinks. > Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try the apps everybody > suggested (and the autohotkey script) s...

Feb. 2, 2009

Re: Simple but awesome demos of Wine?

by Tommy

Hi, Yes, my bad... I just thought I saw the demo somewhere on the internet. 2009/2/2 Vit Hrachovy <vit.hrachovy(a)sandbox.cz> > Tomasz Sałaciński wrote: > >> Hello, >> me too). You can try Oblivion too (does have a demo, but requires a >> decent graphics card and lots of memory). All games have a demo version, >> so you don't have to own them. >> > > Hi Tom, > I'm too sorry to correct you, but both Morrowind and Oblivion don't provide > playable demos. Only demo movies. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong and provide me download links - I'd gladly > mirror them. > Hark >

Feb. 2, 2009

Re: DIB Engine - Separated in small patches

by max

Roderick Colenbrander ha scritto: >> As requested I separated the engine in small patches, trying to keep >> original authors when possible. >> As the post didn't appear here (problem with zipped files, maybe ?), >> I've put it on bug 421 page. >> I whish to know if it can be ok for including on wine tree. >> >> Ciao >> >> Max >> > > Getting large patches into Wine takes time especially drastic changes like the DIB engine. Well, gdi32 part isn't that drastic.... with engine disabled is totally transparent > Recently I aksed him about this DIB work on IRC and while he didn't check the patches in much detail yet he has huge doubts whether the chosen design is the good one. (Allen his design wasn't good; Huw his design was better) > Mine IS Huw design with some small changes. The changes are mostly related to when the engine is loaded and to make it transparent to GDI32 when not loaded. > I would recommend to invite all the people interested in a DIB engine (Alexandre, Allen, Huw and perhaps others) for a meeting on IRC to discuss the current design and how to proceed. > > Ok, I'll do it :-) Thank you for answer Max > Roderick >

Feb. 2, 2009

Re: Simple but awesome demos of Wine?

by Vit Hrachovy

Tomasz Sałaciński wrote: > Hello, > me too). You can try Oblivion too (does have a demo, but requires a > decent graphics card and lots of memory). All games have a demo version, > so you don't have to own them. Hi Tom, I'm too sorry to correct you, but both Morrowind and Oblivion don't provide playable demos. Only demo movies. Please correct me if I'm wrong and provide me download links - I'd gladly mirror them. Hark

Feb. 2, 2009

Re: wine.budgetdedicated.com down?

by Matt Perry

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Jeremy White <jwhite(a)winehq.org> wrote: > Would it be possible to host the Wine packages somewhere with higher >> availability? >> > > My sense is that budgetdedicated has largely had a stellar track record, > and that we should, in addition to our great thanks and praise, give > them the benefit of the doubt. > Your sense is not measurable. Actual metrics of the site's availability would be more useful. I look forward to Scott's reply. Hopefully there are improvements that Wine users, such as myself, can contribute to improve the availability of the packages.

Feb. 2, 2009

Re: DIB Engine - Separated in small patches

by Roderick Colenbrander

> As requested I separated the engine in small patches, trying to keep > original authors when possible. > As the post didn't appear here (problem with zipped files, maybe ?), > I've put it on bug 421 page. > I whish to know if it can be ok for including on wine tree. > > Ciao > > Max Getting large patches into Wine takes time especially drastic changes like the DIB engine. Recently I aksed him about this DIB work on IRC and while he didn't check the patches in much detail yet he has huge doubts whether the chosen design is the good one. (Allen his design wasn't good; Huw his design was better) I would recommend to invite all the people interested in a DIB engine (Alexandre, Allen, Huw and perhaps others) for a meeting on IRC to discuss the current design and how to proceed. Roderick -- Jetzt 1 Monat kostenlos! GMX FreeDSL - Telefonanschluss + DSL für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a

Feb. 2, 2009

DIB Engine - Separated in small patches

by Massimo Del Fedele

As requested I separated the engine in small patches, trying to keep original authors when possible. As the post didn't appear here (problem with zipped files, maybe ?), I've put it on bug 421 page. I whish to know if it can be ok for including on wine tree. Ciao Max

Feb. 2, 2009