The location CD drives are mounted changes between systems, this patch is essentially specific to yours. Wine already supports HAL, which should solve this in a more correct manner (though we have reports it doesn't work for some games!), so how comes that's not enough?
thanks -mike
On 6/1/06, Mike Hearn mike@plan99.net wrote:
The location CD drives are mounted changes between systems, this patch is essentially specific to yours. Wine already supports HAL, which should solve this in a more correct manner (though we have reports it doesn't work for some games!), so how comes that's not enough?
thanks -mike
I think /media/cdrom is actually some sort of standard. A google search led me to http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT I don't know where this standard gets any authority, but most modern linux distros I've seen do have a /media/cdrom directory. If there is a /media/cdrom, one can assume that it is the cd-rom drive (whichever has a cd in it) without relying on HAL at all.
A quick test shows that wine 0.9.14, with a clean .wine directory, can install worms: armageddon but not run it (it couldn't find the cd, probably because wine didn't find it). Simply /media/cdrom as d: and using autodetection is enough to make it work.
So the HAL thing doesn't work for everyone, and this works for a lot of people. When you see /media/cdrom, you can be sure it's a cd-rom drive. So why not use it?
"Vincent Povirk" madewokherd+d41d@gmail.com writes:
So the HAL thing doesn't work for everyone, and this works for a lot of people. When you see /media/cdrom, you can be sure it's a cd-rom drive. So why not use it?
Because HAL is supposed to work (assuming you have the proper libraries), and if it doesn't work this should be investigated and fixed. And once it's fixed, the drives created manually are going to interfere with it.
On 6/1/06, Mike Hearn mike@plan99.net wrote:
The location CD drives are mounted changes between systems, this patch is essentially specific to yours. Wine already supports HAL, which should solve this in a more correct manner (though we have reports it doesn't work for some games!), so how comes that's not enough?
thanks -mike
What about the device node symlink? It's needed for the games alot and it's the number one thing I get asked for help for now. We don't have an easy way to detect it, although HAL should be able fix it.
Jesse
On 6/1/06, Jesse Allen the3dfxdude@gmail.com wrote:
What about the device node symlink? It's needed for the games alot and it's the number one thing I get asked for help for now. We don't have an easy way to detect it, although HAL should be able fix it.
Right well that's us being borked somewhere ... Alexandre has said on IRC that we shouldn't actually need the x:: symlink anymore :)
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