Slackware 11 - Wine question

[ReRuss]

I was wondering if I should use Wine , or WineX Cedega...

[Oskar_Hanberg]

Wine has performance - Cedega has GUI. I Use wine.

[soulmata]

They are two completely different things

wine is primarily only good for 2d vb applications. it does not do d3d emulation.

cedega is specifically geared for directX applications, primarily 3d games

wine is free

cedega is not

[ReRuss]

NM , Figure dout how to compile...

I cant get wine to start , it shows it's loading , then it closes

I'm stumped...

[Aaron]

For gaming?... Cedega. I don't know if it handles normal applications that rely on the Windows GUI will work with Cedega, though.

For normal applications that aren't super huge and complicated, I would go with Wine...

For example of Wine's power, it can run Firefox .

[Aaron]

NM , Figure dout how to compile...

I cant get wine to start , it shows it's loading , then it closes

I'm stumped...

Try running it from the command-line (wine), and post the output .

[Que]

Just curious ReRuss, what exactly are you trying to run through wine/Cedega?

[ReRuss]

I figured out how to get it running now , I couldn't get much to work cuz I was in root

Had everything up and running , with WineX , and with WineX I installed few things like YahELite and IE6 (IE6 was a suggested add-on to elite)

my dumb move was forcing GNU C libraries to install , now I gotta reinstall linux

[Que]

I figured out how to get it running now , I couldn't get much to work cuz I was in root

Had everything up and running , with WineX , and with WineX I installed few things like YahELite and IE6 (IE6 was a suggested add-on to elite)

my dumb move was forcing GNU C libraries to install , now I gotta reinstall linux

The joys of linux. Good luck.

[ReRuss]

I'm gonna try Suse 10.1 , since my time in Linux was in Suse about 4-5 years ago , and I had good luck with it

Anyway if anybody is interested , this is the drivers I was talking about - http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/

the problem I had was unrecognized file types when I tried to make

[funkyass]

use debian.

[ReRuss]

I got Suse 10.1 installed , 6.5GB installation , but it detected all my hardware and everything , configured better than what Slack did

[Echoecho]

Just don't use wine for games, it's crap that way.

Btw, trying to start off using linux on Slackware is really dumb. It's also not necessary and the optimizations are now hype same as with Genpoo.

[ReRuss]

just tryin it out and learnin stuff

I suck with linux commands , like I run "jstest" which tests the input , but I dunno how to format it to run for example the "normal" mode

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Usage: jstest [<mode>] <device>

Modes:
  --normal           One-line mode showing immediate status
  --old              Same as --normal, using 0.x interface
  --event            Prints events as they come in
  --nonblock         Same as --event, in nonblocking mode
  --select           Same as --event, using select() call

[Que]

Just don't use wine for games, it's crap that way.

Btw, trying to start off using linux on Slackware is really dumb. It's also not necessary and the optimizations are now hype same as with Genpoo.

What's wrong with Slackware? Better than starting on dead-rat or mandrake, u-crap-to(Ubuntu) or some other shit distro like Suse. Debian is another good starter, but a different than linux (I'm pretty sure anyways, been a while).

[sweener2001]

suse has KDE. that qualifies it as a good starter. and it's a got a pretty good updater. with a decent sized repository of programs.

[adventure_of_link]

Que: From my experiences, slack was dodgy as all hell. Hell usually it would even ask me for a root floppy, even on startup. I installed it on my laptop, and it has no floppy drive

I tend to personally like Ubuntu (and related), Gentoo, and DSL.

[ReRuss]

Well I just loaded up an RPM for the joystick drivers , then tried to configure what it didn't install

I tried making a rc.local but it wouldnt load it , then I edited rc , broke my linux , but it'd still boot up and run KDE , I think I'm better off buyin a chip burner and converting my multitap to usb...

But I'm gonna reinstall , and perhaps one day I'll figure it out , or find somebody else that figured it out

[Que]

Que: From my experiences, slack was dodgy as all hell. Hell usually it would even ask me for a root floppy, even on startup. I installed it on my laptop, and it has no floppy drive

I tend to personally like Ubuntu (and related), Gentoo, and DSL.

You don't know what you're doing. I've never run into any problems like this.

Well I just loaded up an RPM for the joystick drivers , then tried to configure what it didn't install

I tried making a rc.local but it wouldnt load it , then I edited rc , broke my linux , but it'd still boot up and run KDE , I think I'm better off buyin a chip burner and converting my multitap to usb...

But I'm gonna reinstall , and perhaps one day I'll figure it out , or find somebody else that figured it out

Slackware handles thing differently. Ask on the forums, and check the knowledge base for info.

[DOLLS (J) [!]]

Ubuntu works, what's wrong with it?

[Que]

Ubuntu works, what's wrong with it?

It's not Slackware, sure it works, but imo Ubuntu does not work well. Whereas I believe Slackware does.

[Echoecho]

Slackware takes a long time to set up and requires more knowhow whereas something like Ubuntu is installed more ready in one hit. These are both fine. But that's why I wouldn't recommend Slackware for a newbie. If someone wants to learn linux right at the start by using Slackware or LFS then for their sake they better be reading off a good manual. But if you just want to use it as a desktop already and learn things as you go along, first go with an easy one like Ubuntu.

[DOLLS (J) [!]]

...sure it works, but imo Ubuntu does not work well. Whereas I believe Slackware does.

Please explain.

[ReRuss]

Well I just loaded up an RPM for the joystick drivers , then tried to configure what it didn't install

I tried making a rc.local but it wouldnt load it , then I edited rc , broke my linux , but it'd still boot up and run KDE , I think I'm better off buyin a chip burner and converting my multitap to usb...

But I'm gonna reinstall , and perhaps one day I'll figure it out , or find somebody else that figured it out

Slackware handles thing differently. Ask on the forums, and check the knowledge base for info.[/quote]

This was on a Suse 10.1 install

I'm just considering goin to suse 9.3 , it's stable and I've run it before a wee bit , but I'm gonna build an adapter for snes based on the Linux schematics , and see if my friend who has suse 9.3 on most of his machines , can figure out how to get it working

I certainly have had no luck , and newer kernals are supposed to have the kernal support , so it says no need to patch the kernal, and it also claims a 2.0 of the drivers (I certainly found nothing up to 2.0) but I tried an RPM for suse 9.3 under suse 10.1 , maybe it just wouldnt work right , I dunno , I just know I cant get it to work

[Zerothis]

Que: From my experiences, slack was dodgy as all hell. Hell usually it would even ask me for a root floppy, even on startup. I installed it on my laptop, and it has no floppy drive :?

I tend to personally like Ubuntu (and related), Gentoo, and DSL.

You don't know what you're doing. I've never run into any problems like this.

Typical, helpful response from a Linux geek.