I am experiencing two problems w/ Steam:
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.
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:
ALSA lib control.c:739:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL plug:hw:0 err:mmio:MMIO_ParseExtA No . in szFileName: "" err:mmio:MMIO_ParseExtA No . in szFileName: "C:\Program Files\Valve\ \Steam\" fixme:sync:CreateIoCompletionPort (0xffffffff, (nil), 00000000, 00000000): stub. fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80040154 Win32 MiniDump Helper version 1.0.0.0 (c) Copyright 2000-2003 Valve Corporation All rights reserved.
Expected argument 'ProcessId'.
Usage: WriteMiniDump [@argfile] [/?|h|help] [/v|version] [/Type <value>] <ProcessId> <DumpFile>
@argfile Read arguments from a file. /? Show usage. /v Show version. /Type <value> Select dump type values are: normal full ProcessId Select process id for which to generate a dump DumpFile Select path of output dump file
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- 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.
- 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?
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. 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.
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.
Stefan
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:57 +0000, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
- 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?
- 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.
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.
Yes, the patch works for Steam, and fixes this bug, which is marked as blocker.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2926
This will allow me to download and install HL2 over the web.
What's wrong with it?
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Ivan Gyurdiev -
Stefan Dösinger