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Re: How can an app detect it's running under WINE?
by Greg Turner Oct. 25, 2002

Oct. 25, 2002

On Friday 25 October 2002 02:51 am, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > >>>>> "Alberto" == Alberto Massari <alby(a)exln.com> writes: > > Alberto> Hi everybody, I am working on making our software (Stylus > Alberto> Studio, http://www.stylusstudio.com) run under WINE, if this > is Alberto> feasible. To achieve this, I have already implemented a bunch > Alberto> of APIs (the application is built against the UNICODE version > Alberto> of the Win32 APIs) and fixed some bugs I hit (I already mailed > Alberto> the first patch to wine-patches(a)winehq.com) > > Alberto> However, I would feel better if I could detect I am running > Alberto> under WINE and gracefully disable some functionalities that > are Alberto> not yet fully supported; is there any way to achieve this? Is > Alberto> there a WIN32 API (like, say, GetVersionEx) that can return a > Alberto> string like "Windows 2000 (WINE)" or is WINE trying to be as > Alberto> stealth as possible? > > You can query for example the wine registry entries. > > Bye I don't like this solution. Those entries are likely to be present in certain shared wine / native windows configurations. -- gmt "Oh, and of course, the fastest way to dig a tunnel is to dig at both sides." -- The Linux Advanced Routing HOWTO

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hack to make GrandPrixLegens and N2002 work
by Christoph Frick Oct. 25, 2002

Oct. 25, 2002

Hi! This is an more or less a straight forward hack to make the game grand prix legends work. It will also effect other games from Papyrus. The game has two problems: 1) It binds more than one time to the same port without doing an SO_REUSEADDR. Acording to UNP it is no big deal to do so - so i just force it. 2) The game sets SO_DONTROUTE on the socket. This works in linux and prevent the user of connecting to games in other networks. Either windows ignores the SO_DONTROUTE or it is not set in native windows or it is ignored. I dont have any opportunity to find out. Another thing is a registry key the game expexcts: [System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Class\\NetTrans\\0000] 1027876728 "IPAddress"="192.168.66.6" It runs with this setting (also N2002); maybe the dontroute problem could also be solved, if the remaining keys to properly define the TCP/IP config for a NIC in windows are set?! So my plea: Could some windows network/socket guru point me in a direction to do further investigations? BTW: i can not imagine this "patch" makes it to the tree - but just to have it said: The patch is under BSD License. CU!

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Re: avoid XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode while detecting no dga
by Lionel Ulmer Oct. 25, 2002

Oct. 25, 2002

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:21:22PM -0500, Greg Turner wrote: > I did not investigate root causes, so someone may know > a better fix. > LICENSE: X11 > CHANGELOG: > * dlls/x11drv/dga2.c: Greg Turner <gmturner(a)ameritech.net> > - avoid X11 error during DGA detection. Grmbl, I must have missed that case when I submitted my fix last time (I only did it in the actual DGA2 usage, not in the 'probing' code). The actual root cause is (for me), a 'feature' in the X server that, instead of reporting the extension as missing on remote clients, report it as being present but then send error messages when trying to use it. Lionel -- Lionel Ulmer - http://www.bbrox.org/

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Services
by Martin Wilck Oct. 25, 2002

Oct. 25, 2002

I have had a look at dlls/advapi/services.c and found that it is pretty incomplete. Can anybody tell what the current implementation is used for (are there any known programs starting services?) In particular I'd like to know what people generally think about the usefulness of Services in Wine. The fact that wine cannot change user personalities and is lacking most of the NT security concepts makes services pretty useless. However it may be desirable to translate services into something useful on Unix, especially for winelib (it would be useful for the app I am trying to port). Has there been a discussion yet how to set this up without compromising system security? Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck(a)Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy

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eTax status report
by Ben Stanley Oct. 24, 2002

Oct. 24, 2002

Hi, I have now completed using the eTax program from the Australian Taxation Office (http://etax.ato.gov.au) under wine, and have some concluding remarks. * Yellow Note Popups over buttons: these notes pop up almost immediately you put your mouse over a button, and if you click on them, the button does not respond. This causes great user frustration, as you point the mouse at a button, click the mouse, and nothing happens because the popup note appeared and stole the mouse click. Perhaps this could be solved by moving the popup note position so that it's not directly under the mouse pointer? I don't know if this is an etax problem or a wine problem. Workaround: move mouse over button and click again, or be very quick with your mouse click the first time. * ListView (tree): when hovering over items with long names, the same popup note appears, and also greedily steals mouse clicks, preventing you from selecting the item underneath. The note must pass the mouse click through for proper handling by the list item. Workaround: Wait for popup to disappear and then click on list item. * I had some refresh issues with the print preview section of the program. When it draws a page for the first time, all form fields appear to be filled in correctly, but when scrolling the form fields are often left blank when they should be filled in. This may be verified by going forward and then back a page, to force a complete re-draw of the original page, and verifying that fields which were previously blank are now drawn properly. * I didn't try to submit the tax return under wine, as I did not know about the wine integration of the web browser which would be used to perform the submission. (I failed to download the security codes under Mozilla, so I resorted to a Windows box for downloanding security codes and submission.) * Help problems, partly to do with launching winhelp from within etax, and also partly because WINE help can't yet read the etax help file properly. I used etax in the desktop windowing mode, as I had problems with both the managed and unmanaged modes. I set all dlls to builtin (except for "*"). This is the first year that I have been able to use eTax to do the tax return. I want to thank all of the wine contributors for making it possible! Last year I gave up and used a Windows box for the whole thing. Ben Stanley

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Re: Services
by Dustin Navea Oct. 24, 2002

Oct. 24, 2002

--- Steve Langasek <vorlon(a)dodds.net> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:19:21AM -0700, Dustin > Navea wrote: > > > --- Steve Langasek <vorlon(a)dodds.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:08:49AM -0700, Dustin > > > Navea wrote: > > > > Just as wine should not be run as root, file i/o > in > > > wine should NEVER be > > > done in a security context other than that of > the > > > user running the Windows > > > app. Anything that would cause user data files > to > > > be written out under a > > > different uid is broken. > > > Thats not what I'm saying, what I'm saying is > this: > > Yes, that *is* what you're saying. Having the file > get saved to the Unix > fs with owner and group wine is most definitely a > user data file "[being] > written out under a different uid." That is > absolutely out of the > question. I will never knowingly permit software > that works this way > to be installed on my systems. > Not exactly, because as the fact that wine is the program saving it, and wine is running under user/group wine (in the future), it will save it as user/group wine. > > So he goes and changes the owner/group to > > speeddy/speeddy, oepns the file in kword, adds a > few > > more lines, and saves it. > > Um, and how exactly is this supposed to happen on a > multiuser system? You > *cannot* change the ownership of a file without root > privileges. that is what im saying, he does: sudo chown speeddy.speeddy /path/to/filename At best, > if you have write perms on the directory the file's > in and you have read > access to the file, you can copy the file and delete > the original, giving > you a single copy that's owned by you. But this is > only the least of the > reasons why Windows apps should not be writing to > files as user "wine" to > begin with. I knew that much already ;) But if wine is to run as a "service" (i.e. load at bootup via an initscript) and acutally be functional as well as user-friendly, it will have to run in it's own account, just like apache and pgsql do and like i believe named does... -Dustin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/

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Why would Installshield want WINSPOOL.DRV
by David.Goodenough＠DGA.co.uk Oct. 24, 2002

Oct. 24, 2002

I was asked by my son to install a couple of games for him on his Linux laptop. Wine is installed (at the current Debian unstable level) but when I try to run the installer, which says it is InstallShield, it gets to 99% and stops, and the console says that it can not load WINSPOOL.DRV. Firstly I can think of no good reason for InstallShield to want this (can anyone else, as far as I know this game - Star Trek Elite Force - does not have a print facility), and secondly what do you think is my best route fix the problem. There are some Windows machines (98/ME/NT4) in the house, I am using Win 98 mode in Wine, which machine should I copy WINSPOOL.DRV from if it will help? Thanks in advance David

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Third listview status update
by Dimitrie O. Paun Oct. 24, 2002

Oct. 24, 2002

Folks, With my latest W-series patches, the listview should now be a pleasure to work with: fast, *no* flicker, etc. It should be a lot better than before I started working on it. If this is not the case (there are regressions, there is nasty flicker *anywhere*, it's slow, or in general it's not a pleasure to interact with it, i.e. you don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling) let me know now. Internally, the code is a lot cleaner. I have started on Sep. 9, 2002, at revision 1.138. A month and a half, and almost 150 revisions later, most of the code has changed multiple times. Large number of visible, and mostly invisible bugs have been fixed, a lot of corner cases covered, features implemented, listview has been made scalable, flicker has been eliminated by redrawing the absolute minimum, etc. We are now on solid ground to implement more stuff. This has been an extenuating exercise. I am tired, and on top of it all, real life has knocked on my door. This does not mean I'll stop working on it, but it probably means that I will not be able to put as much time into it. For the above mentioned reasons, I think it's best for everybody if we stabilize the code as much as possible, before we start working on the large number of missing features. For this I need your help -- the few apps that I test with work just fine now. I would like to thank everybody that helped me with testing, patches, or reporting bugs. I couldn't have done the half of it without that support. This sounds like this is a done deal. It's not. There's a lot of stuff that remains to be done, but I needed some closure. :) -- Dimi.

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Impressive success
by John K. Hohm Oct. 23, 2002

Oct. 23, 2002

I just got an ATAPI Plextor PlexWriter 40/12/40A (which rocks), and Plextor's Win32-only firmware updater worked flawlessly in wine, a few months old CVS. Kudos to all involved in supporting that sort of access!

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Re: wine not detecting CUPS printers
by Dan Fer Oct. 23, 2002

Oct. 23, 2002

>From: "Dan Fer" <ezra_daniel(a)hotmail.com> >To: wine-devel(a)winehq.com >Subject: wine not detecting wine printers >Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:32:09 +0200 > > > > >Has anyone tried using cups under Wine in any of the latest builds? > >I tried to builds from this month and none detect any printer. > >Is there a patch? Anything I could use to fix it? > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN. Más Útil Cada Día http://www.msn.es/intmap/ _________________________________________________________________ Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: http://messenger.microsoft.com/es

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