Finally installed Wine but there are problems

[Christian]

Many thanks for the tip, will have a look!
Have you tried running a Windows screen reader under it?
Do you install Windows?
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2006-07-09 at 18:49 Alex Snow wrote:

>you might also want to look at qemu.  It's a free alternative to 
>vmware that is pretty accessible, and might give you better results 
>then wine.  Qemu uses commandline options to run instead of a gui 
>configuration like vmware does, so you could write a shell script to 
>start it and launch that from inside an x session.
>On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 
>at 12:02:02AM +0200, Christian wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Yes, it is set to emulate Win2000. I read in the user documentation that
>the config file was disabled, instead they use the win registry from what
>they call it.
>> One thing I also did was copying the entire c:\wineyes folder from my
>Windows partition into my Linux system.
>> After that I tried running
>> wine wineyes.exe but it didn't work either.
>> Will try setting it to Win95/98 but with some help then.
>> The other none free alternative is Vmware Workstation where you install
>Windows onto a virtual machine, but programs might become slow so I am not
>considering that. Also don't think it is accessible either.
>> All the best,
>> Christian
>> 
>> 
>> On 2006-07-09 at 14:01 Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> 
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>> >On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:33:31PM +0200, Christian wrote:
>> >> Hello all,
>> >> Now I have installed Wine but there are problems when it comes to
>> >configuration. winecfg requires X. I tried running it with Gnopernicus
>but
>> >Gnopernicus goes completely silent.
>> >
>> >It sounds like winecfg, and maybe wine itself, isn't a gnome
>> >compatible program then. Back when I tried wine, there was a shell
>> >script that was text-based, and it let you do the configuration in the
>> >text console, so that after it finished, you could simply just run wine.
>> >
>> >> I downloaded Window-Eyes 5.5 Demo and ran it. I have to run it from
>an X
>> >console. I simply type:
>> >> wine we55demo.exe
>> >> After that I get three click sounds and Window-Eyes comes up with a
>> >prerecorded message that before the Window-Eyes can continue, your
>system
>> >needs to be restarted. Well, I have run this two times but still the
>same
>> >thing.
>> >
>> >Hmm, interesting. It doesn't generate any click sounds when natively
>> >running under windows, at least it hasn't for me. As for the restart
>> >message, it sounds like wine is configured to emulate a windows
>> >2k/xp/2k3 system, in which case, wineyes is installing the wineyes
>> >video driver, and since you're being prompted to restart over, and over
>> >again, it's apparently not succeeding in getting itself chained
>> >into the wine video setup, which is very well within the realm of
>> >possibilities. You might just have to settle for running wine as an
>> >emulated win95/98/me setup.
>> >
>> >Greg
>> >
>> >
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