Re: wine killing X?

2007-04-28 Thread Nick Law
Yes, I get this too. It's present in 0.9.36 and appears to have been introduced in 0.9.35 or possibly 0.9.34. I can reproduce this bug pretty easily when I run world of warcraft on wine. My setup is a virtual 1024x768 wine window. I start wow it plays just fine for as long as I want _as l

Re: wine 0.9.30-35 Something strange happened with the fonts ? ** Problem Solved **

2007-04-22 Thread Nick Law
The problem : When using notepad the following fonts are invisible when you type anything into notepad. Courier MS San Serif Small Fonts System They appear in the pull down fonts menu, but if you select one of these fonts and start typing in the notepad, no characters are displayed. (As if th

Re: wine 0.9.30-35 Something strange happened with the fonts ?

2007-04-18 Thread Nick Law
Huw Davies wrote: Nick Law wrote: So, notepad now shows the courier, small font, sans serief and system fonts (all .fon files) in the list of fonts in notepad. All well and good, however I still have the problem that if you select any of these non true type fonts, ie courier, small font, sans

Re: wine 0.9.30-35 Something strange happened with the fonts ?

2007-04-18 Thread Nick Law
Huw Davies wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:44:13AM +0100, Nick Law wrote: yes, /usr/local/share/wine/fonts/ exists my system and is only populated with two fonts, broadway.ttf and ad5font.fon. So all the fonts from the build which include courier (fon) and serife don't get transferr

Re: wine 0.9.30-35 Something strange happened with the fonts ?

2007-04-18 Thread Nick Law
Bill Medland wrote: On Tue, 2007-17-04 at 22:08 +0100, Nick Law wrote: Huw Davies wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:03:03AM +0100, Nick Law wrote: Nick Law wrote: Well, I don't quite know what happened there with the fonts, however my fonts are now

Re: wine 0.9.30-35 Something strange happened with the fonts ?

2007-04-17 Thread Nick Law
Huw Davies wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:03:03AM +0100, Nick Law wrote: Nick Law wrote: Well, I don't quite know what happened there with the fonts, however my fonts are now back working by deleting the contents of the fonts folder c:\windows\fonts\ and simply copyi

Re: wine 0.9.30-35 Something strange happened with the fonts ?

2007-04-16 Thread Nick Law
Nick Law wrote: Well, I don't quite know what happened there with the fonts, however my fonts are now back working by deleting the contents of the fonts folder c:\windows\fonts\ and simply copying in verdana.ttf + bold+italics etc into this folder. The reason I had to copy verdan

wine 0.9.35 Something strange happened with the fonts ?

2007-04-16 Thread Nick Law
Well, I don't quite know what happened there with the fonts, however my fonts are now back working by deleting the contents of the fonts folder c:\windows\fonts\ and simply copying in verdana.ttf + bold+italics etc into this folder. The reason I had to copy verdana was because the application

Re: Ubuntu packages for wine-0.9.35 are broken

2007-04-15 Thread Nick Law
Nick Law wrote: Scott Ritchie wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 13:08 -0600, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: I'm getting number of reports on #winehq as well as in bugzilla about new Ubuntu packages for 0.9.35 having problems with displaying text and mouse cursor. It appears there were some problems

Re: Ubuntu packages for wine-0.9.35 are broken

2007-04-15 Thread Nick Law
Scott Ritchie wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 13:08 -0600, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: I'm getting number of reports on #winehq as well as in bugzilla about new Ubuntu packages for 0.9.35 having problems with displaying text and mouse cursor. It appears there were some problems with xrandr during co

Re: Ubuntu packages for wine-0.9.35 are broken

2007-04-14 Thread Nick Law
RusH wrote: On 4/14/07, RusH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/14/07, RusH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/14/07, Nick Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No notepad is not working correctly either. It is displaying text > > correctly for it's menus, file e

Re: Ubuntu packages for wine-0.9.35 are broken and missing text on suse 9.3

2007-04-14 Thread Nick Law
Nick Law wrote: Hartmut Figge wrote: Nick Law: Further info on the missing text in the build in notepad.exe app. By selecting a different font via the [edit][fonts] menu option in notepad, TrueType fonts appear to work ok, the fonts that are not visible are ... System Courier MS Sans

Re: Ubuntu packages for wine-0.9.35 are broken and missing text on suse 9.3

2007-04-14 Thread Nick Law
Hartmut Figge wrote: Nick Law: Further info on the missing text in the build in notepad.exe app. By selecting a different font via the [edit][fonts] menu option in notepad, TrueType fonts appear to work ok, the fonts that are not visible are ... System Courier MS Sans Serif Small fonts

Re: Ubuntu packages for wine-0.9.35 are broken and missing text on suse 9.3

2007-04-14 Thread Nick Law
Nick Law wrote: this is supposedly clean 0.9.34 from git repository, same font bug. 0.9.34 from .deb is fine, I earlier mailed wine deb maintainer about this, maybe its not the wine code, but gcc/glibc? Further info on the missing text in the build in notepad.exe app. By selecting a

Re: Ubuntu packages for wine-0.9.35 are broken and missing text on suse 9.3

2007-04-14 Thread Nick Law
this is supposedly clean 0.9.34 from git repository, same font bug. 0.9.34 from .deb is fine, I earlier mailed wine deb maintainer about this, maybe its not the wine code, but gcc/glibc? Further info on the missing text in the build in notepad.exe app. By selecting a different font via the [e

Re: Ubuntu packages for wine-0.9.35 are broken

2007-04-14 Thread Nick Law
Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:08:10PM +0100, Nick Law wrote: Vitaliy Margolen wrote: RusH wrote: On 4/14/07, Vitaliy Margolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm getting number of reports on #winehq as well as in bugzilla about new Ubun

Re: Ubuntu packages for wine-0.9.35 are broken

2007-04-14 Thread Nick Law
Vitaliy Margolen wrote: RusH wrote: On 4/14/07, Vitaliy Margolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm getting number of reports on #winehq as well as in bugzilla about new Ubuntu packages for 0.9.35 having problems with displaying text and mouse cursor. It appears there were some problems wit

APPDB now appears to be working at normal acceptable speed for administrator login's + backlog of APPDB data requiring approval.

2007-03-22 Thread Nick Law
Thanks go out to whoever it was that fixed the AppDB so that it's now running nice and quick again. I can now login and submit applications/tests etc. There's a backlog of 500+ submissions which will take 2-4 hours to clear, hopefully this should be cleared within the next few days. Nick

Re: AppDB performance issue

2007-03-04 Thread Nick Law
Tony Lambregts wrote: Nick Law wrote: I still find appdb really slow 60 seconds to view some pages, post on the forums etc It's driving me nuts to the point I've gone back to real life for a while as it's less frustrating. BTW this problems exists on systems separated by

Re: xcopy support try 1...

2007-02-22 Thread Nick Law
Can somebody update the latest version number in AppDB to 0.9.31 Thanks Nick

Re: AppDB performance issue

2007-02-20 Thread Nick Law
I still find appdb really slow 60 seconds to view some pages, post on the forums etc It's driving me nuts to the point I've gone back to real life for a while as it's less frustrating. BTW this problems exists on systems separated by over 100 miles (but same login account) so it not hardwar

Re: AppDB performance issue

2007-02-13 Thread Nick Law
Bryan Haskins wrote: Weird I'm on dial-up even and goto the same pages, and all around the wine sites, all the time, and they load surprisingly fast. On 2/12/07, *Nick Law* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Nick Law wrote: > Tony Lambregts wrote: &

Re: AppDB performance issue

2007-02-12 Thread Nick Law
Nick Law wrote: Tony Lambregts wrote: Chris Morgan wrote: On 2/11/07, Tony Lambregts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Law wrote: Hi Tony, Just lately, I've noticed that AppDB seems to be very slow, i.e it can take15 seconds or more for a page to come up or simply t

Re: AppDB performance issue

2007-02-12 Thread Nick Law
Tony Lambregts wrote: Chris Morgan wrote: On 2/11/07, Tony Lambregts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Law wrote: Hi Tony, Just lately, I've noticed that AppDB seems to be very slow, i.e it can take15 seconds or more for a page to come up or simply to login. Is there

opengl code, WoW and graphic cards with 64MB video memory

2007-02-10 Thread Nick Law
dition or does it assume there is an infinite amount of graphics card memory and the application should test for this anyway ? Regards Nick Law

Re: Bugzilla: Adding a 'patch' keyword

2007-02-09 Thread Nick Law
Tony Lambregts wrote: Francois Gouget wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Francois Gouget wrote: [...] But it would be nice if there was an easy way to find bugs that have a patch, even, and maybe especially, if it is incorrect. This would make it easier for interested parties to survey what p

Numeric keypad fix for WoW & Warcraft Bug 6323

2007-02-06 Thread Nick Law
Hi Dean Kuslar has patched keyboard.c so that the numeric keypad now works in both World of Warcraft and Warcraft. If anybody is currently doing any development or bug fixing to other games and the numeric keypad doesn't work on the game your working on, we would be interested in hearing if t

Re: Wine 0.9.25 full of regressions! ( for certain applications )

2006-11-13 Thread Nick Law
For what it's worth, World of Warcraft is working well in opengl mode except for certain hardware... For instance ATI X series seem to have crashes however I'm not sure if this is widespread or just one or two users. ON ATI 8500 series & higher cards opengl is working well but ONLY if you add t

Re: Patch for opengl32.dll.so

2006-11-02 Thread Nick Law
Roderick Colenbrander wrote: Roderick Colenbrander wrote : On 11/1/06, Bertrand Coconnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, The last release of Wine 0.9.24 contains an error in the code of opengl32.dll.so under X11 : Wine tries to get the address of "wglGetInte

Vista applications that work & those that don't

2006-09-29 Thread Nick Law
I thought this may be of interest... applications that work and those that don't in Vista RC1 It would be interesting on how this same list compares with wine 0.9.22 http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List and the hardware compatibility list .. http://

Re: EnumServicesStatusA - Typical return structure contents with a working internet LAN connection

2006-09-20 Thread Nick Law
Duane Clark wrote: Nick Law wrote: I've never written anything under MS windows otherwise I would write a small application myself that calls EnumServicesStatus & figure it out myself. In fact maybe I will have to get myself a copy of visual C++ so I can do these tests. Have y

EnumServicesStatusA - Typical return structure contents with a working internet LAN connection

2006-09-20 Thread Nick Law
ill have to get myself a copy of visual C++ so I can do these tests. Regards Nick Law PS I'm new to this debugging without access to the applications source code, so any hints & tricks would be appreciated. It looks like I may have to learn Intels assembler instruction set as well

EnumServicesStatusA - Typical return structure contents with a working internet LAN connection

2006-09-20 Thread Nick Law
ill have to get myself a copy of visual C++ so I can do these tests. Regards Nick Law PS I'm new to this debugging without access to the applications source code, so any hints & tricks would be appreciated. It looks like I may have to learn Intels assembler instruction set as well

Re: Wine 0.9.21 fails to run

2006-09-19 Thread Nick Law
brary is from NVidia driver 8774 (the most recent), and x11 is 6.8.2. If there is anything you would like me to provide in order to diagnose this, let me know. Thanks. -kz Nick Law wrote: Ken Zalewski wrote: I just upgraded from 0.9.20 to 0.9.21, and now nothing will run, inclu

Re: wine 0.9.21 - World of warcraft appears to be broken on ATI hardware ? crashes with Blizzard critical error

2006-09-14 Thread Nick Law
Vitaliy Margolen wrote: Nick Law wrote: I'm having the same problems with 0.9.21 here, World of Warcraft is broken, no longer runs at all on ATI hardware, (confirmed on two separate systems running with ATO 9550. (maybe ok on Nvidia hardware although not tried it myself).

wine 0.9.21 - World of warcraft appears to be broken on ATI hardware ? crashes with Blizzard critical error

2006-09-14 Thread Nick Law
I'm having the same problems with 0.9.21 here, World of Warcraft is broken, no longer runs at all on ATI hardware, (confirmed on two separate systems running with ATO 9550. (maybe ok on Nvidia hardware although not tried it myself). Upon trying to start WoW, a Blizzard dialog box appears whic

Re: wine-0.9.21 - World of Warcraft appears to be broken on ATI hardware ? Crashes with critical error

2006-09-14 Thread Nick Law
I'm having the same problems with 0.9.21 here, World of Warcraft is broken, no longer runs at all on ATI hardware, (confirmed on two separate systems running with ATO 9550. (maybe ok on Nvidia hardware although not tried it myself). Upon trying to start WoW, a Blizzard dialog box appears whic

Re: Making people aware about appdb and outdated Wine versions.

2006-09-10 Thread Nick Law
% or 100%. A further page with graphs showing trends would also be useful. You could instantly then see more and more APPS getting Gold or Platinum status over time ( or not ) the [LIST] should be the Application Name and you should be able to click on it to take you straight to the page.. .

gcc V4 problem ?

2006-06-09 Thread Nick Law
e PACKAGE_NAME "Wine" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "wine" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.9.15" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "Wine 0.9.15" Regards Nick Law

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
Dan Kegel wrote: On 5/26/06, Nick Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess I could create a symbolic link from the fonts directory in wine but where is the linux version of Picasa expecting to find these fonts Probably ~/.picasa/drive_c/windows/fonts, or something like that. The dir

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
=aHR0cDovL3BpY2FzYS5nb29nbGUuY29tL2xpbnV4L2luZGV4Lmh0bWw%3D then click on this link to download the same thing in French but this URL will allow the download .. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasa.google.com%2Flinux%2F&langpair=en%7Cfr&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Nick Law wrote: Th

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
I guess I could create a symbolic link from the fonts directory in wine but where is the linux version of Picasa expecting to find these fonts ? Sorry I should be able to find them with find but I seem to have folders with fonts in several locations. Dan Kegel wrote: On 5/26/06, Nick Law

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
27;t change anything while it it scanning the disk. Regards Nick Nick Law wrote: Another quick note just saw the mistake I made with the URL, so here it is again ... This URL will display the pages in English but will not allow the download to take place ... so read about it here htt

Re: bug irony - bug in firefox or xorg

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
Works ok for me, no crashes. ( Firefox 1.5.0.3, Xorg version 6.8.2, ATI graphics card 9550 driver V8.23.07 ) Nick EA Durbin wrote: While browsing the bug database I discovered a bug, in which my x server crashes when i use the side horizontal scrollbar in firefox. I was browsing this attachme

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
Dan Kegel wrote: On 5/26/06, Nick Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having looked at both the linux version and the windows version running on 0.9.14 I must admit that I prefer the windows version running on 0.9.14 simply because the fonts look much better on my system Could it be th

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
And here's a working english link for those outside the US, I wonder why the normal links don't work for those outside the US ? http://picasa.google.com.nyud.net:8080/linux/thanks-other.html It takes you straight to the .bin download with it's selfextracting installer. Nick La

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
ppview.php?versionId=4031 Regards Nick Nick Law wrote: I 've loaded and installed the .bin version, installation went flawlessly, I told it to index the whole hard drive it started doing that then after 30 seconds or do a message box poped up --- FATAL ERROR -- "Picasa cannot continue&

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
I spoke to soon, they seems to be a couple of show stoppers on the windows on wine 0.9.14 and on the linux versions, i.e. hangs or not wanting to run at all. Can somebody let me know where I should report these problems to ? I assume this this not the correct place.. Nick Nick Law wrote

World of Warcraft (WoW) patch/more address space layout stuff

2006-05-23 Thread Nick Law
regarding this partiicular problem, I would be grateful for any comments that I can pass back to Jan Riewe. Thanks Regards Nick Law Appdb Maintainer - World of Warcraft 1.10.x Any feedback is much appreciated. Comment for 'World of Warcraft 1.10.x