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Re: [Wine] Help me please…

On Monday 25 February 2008, Memorex wrote:
> root@memorex:~# winecfg
> wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported
> combination. It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc
> with NPTL support.

Well there you go, that’s your problem and the reason for the continual
crashes. You are running a glibc that does not have NPTL or TLS, and
you will need to upgrade glibc to a version that does have such
support. Or, configure the system correctly so that those libraries are
properly detected and used.

This is not a wine issue, it is a Slackware one. You stand a better
chance of finding out how to fix it by asking on the slack user
forums/lists

> wine: creating configuration directory
> ‘/root/.wine’…

Do not run wine as root
Do not run wine as root
Do not run wine as root

It opens the door to incredible amounts of destrucction and devastation
from Windows programs when they go wrong

I can’t think of any valid reason, not even a debugging one, to run wine
as root.

–
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Monday ~ February 02, 2008 by admin Posted in linux | No Comments

Re: [Wine] …

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:32:55AM -0600, Memorex wrote:
> root@memorex:~# winecfg
> wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination.
> It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.
> wine: creating configuration directory ‘/root/.wine’…
> wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination.
> It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.
> wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination.
> It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.
> wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0×003ffd80 at address 0×60998103 (thread 0009), starting debugger…
> wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination.
> It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.

> Please help me .. :(

The initial messages should have been a clue. It states that wine will
most likely crash and that you need a glibc library with NPTL.

Your distro does not support the necessary threading libraries (NPTL).
A quick look at the slackware release notes suggests that depending on
what kernel you are running you may not be using the glibc with nptl
support compiled in.

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-11.0/README.NPTL

I suggest posting on the slackware user mailing list, because until you
are using the NPTL version of glibc and can confirm it, it is very
unlikely that wine or any other application that NEEDS NPTL will work.

–
Darragh

“Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.”

Monday ~ February 02, 2008 by admin Posted in linux | No Comments

[Wine] Font anti-aliasing in wine?

One of the things that DOES make a big difference for me is font-antialiasing (AA). (OK, maybe I am picky). Does anyone have experience/knowledge on that subject?
What surprises me is that for a few fonts (BitStream Vera Sans, for instance), it is active, whereas it is completely absent for most others. Why is that? (BTW, I just found out that I get the best results so far for the new MS font “Corbel”–I admit not a very “free” solution, but a practical one. I now have set this as the default font for menus, tooltips, etc.)

For instance, in the Word documents I am editing, AA kicks in above a certain font size (or document magnification/zoom), but seems to be switched off below. Is that a parameter that can be set somewhere? Also, in a Word document, if I select a magnification which renders a certain font with AA, the same characters would not be AA’ed for italic letters. ???

The AA I have seen happen in wine is a simple AA only (”grayscale”). Ultimately, of course, one would like to see subpixel-AA (like ClearType in Windows) in wine applications, which is now widely available on linux through freetype2. Can that be switched on in wine?
Any thoughts/ideas/knowledge about AA under wine would be interesting. Thanks very much.
–hasi.

Monday ~ February 02, 2008 by admin Posted in linux | 1 Comment

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