MSN wtf?

[iamgeniusrnti]

Well I've dabbled with Wine on and off for about a year and quite frankly, I've never gotten Wine to work... in fact I've never gotten Wine to do anything--I don't know why I bother, I guess because sometimes my head inflates, and I just need Wine to tell me that yes tehre are some htings in life I can't have.

So I went here: http://wiki.winehq.org/MSN_Messenger_webcam_support

Didn't work... cashed. So I used wine tricks and installed a bunch of crap Google suggested.

Now I get this:

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genius@k-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/MSN Messenger$ export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine && wine $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/MSN\ Messenger/msnmsgr
fixme:wtsapi:WTSQuerySessionInformationW Stub (nil) 0xffffffff 8 0x32fb70 0x32fb6c
fixme:wtsapi:WTSQuerySessionInformationW Stub (nil) 0xffffffff 16 0x32fb74 0x32fb70
fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0x10058 0x00000000
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETTASKBARPOS, hwnd=(nil)): stub
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} could be created for context 0x17
fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (-1): stub
genius@k-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/MSN Messenger$ export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine && wine $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/MSN\ Messenger/msnmsgr
fixme:wtsapi:WTSQuerySessionInformationW Stub (nil) 0xffffffff 8 0x32fb70 0x32fb6c
fixme:wtsapi:WTSQuerySessionInformationW Stub (nil) 0xffffffff 16 0x32fb74 0x32fb70
fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0x10058 0x00000000
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETTASKBARPOS, hwnd=(nil)): stub
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} could be created for context 0x17
fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (-1): stub

Help?

[JeZ-l-Lee]

On 08/12/2010 07:48 PM, iamgeniusrnti wrote:

Well I've dabbled with Wine on and off for about a year and quite frankly, I've never gotten Wine to work... in fact I've never gotten Wine to do anything--I don't know why I bother, I guess because sometimes my head inflates, and I just need Wine to tell me that yes tehre are some htings in life I can't have.

So I went here: http://wiki.winehq.org/MSN_Messenger_webcam_support

Didn't work... cashed. So I used wine tricks and installed a bunch of crap Google suggested.

Now I get this:

Code:
genius@k-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/MSN Messenger$ export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine&& wine $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/MSN\ Messenger/msnmsgr
fixme:wtsapi:WTSQuerySessionInformationW Stub (nil) 0xffffffff 8 0x32fb70 0x32fb6c
fixme:wtsapi:WTSQuerySessionInformationW Stub (nil) 0xffffffff 16 0x32fb74 0x32fb70
fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0x10058 0x00000000
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETTASKBARPOS, hwnd=(nil)): stub
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} could be created for context 0x17
fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (-1): stub
genius@k-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/MSN Messenger$ export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine&& wine $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/MSN\ Messenger/msnmsgr
fixme:wtsapi:WTSQuerySessionInformationW Stub (nil) 0xffffffff 8 0x32fb70 0x32fb6c
fixme:wtsapi:WTSQuerySessionInformationW Stub (nil) 0xffffffff 16 0x32fb74 0x32fb70
fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0x10058 0x00000000
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETTASKBARPOS, hwnd=(nil)): stub
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} not registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} could be created for context 0x17
fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (-1): stub



Help?

Hi,

I use Wine to play all of my favorite Windows(R) games.
They all play 100% perfectly on my Ubuntu Linux using Wine.
Wine is one of the greatest "reverse-engineering" applications ever made!

Just my two cents...

Jesse
16BitSoft(R)
Video Game Design Studio
www.16BitSoft.com

[James McKenzie]

iamgeniusrnti wrote:

Well I've dabbled with Wine on and off for about a year and quite frankly, I've never gotten Wine to work... in fact I've never gotten Wine to do anything--I don't know why I bother, I guess because sometimes my head inflates, and I just need Wine to tell me that yes tehre are some htings in life I can't have.

Since Messenger is a Windows product, I NEVER expect it to work in Wine
with a webcam.

Try some of the Linux alternates to this very broken product.

BTW, there is a nice tutorial in Wine's Applications Database on how to
get this program to work, minus webcam,

James McKenzie

[jordan johnston]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Jesse Palser <[email protected]> wrote:

 On 08/12/2010 07:48 PM, iamgeniusrnti wrote:

Well I've dabbled with Wine on and off for about a year and quite frankly,
I've never gotten Wine to work... in fact I've never gotten Wine to do
anything--I don't know why I bother, I guess because sometimes my head
inflates, and I just need Wine to tell me that yes tehre are some htings in
life I can't have.

So I went here: http://wiki.winehq.org/MSN_Messenger_webcam_support

Didn't work... cashed.  So I used wine tricks and installed a bunch of
crap Google suggested.

I would probably start with a fresh wine directory, ie: rename .wine
folder. run winecfg,
it will update your new ./wine folder. Now, follow the MSN webcam
howto and go from there.
I don't just randomly install a bunch of crap with winetricks, certain
things can and will harm wine. ie: using the wrong dll-overrides. or
just installing something wrong, that have breaks wine.

maybe then by tracking and testing each change you will figure out
what is breaking it.
myself, i do not have an answer for you, i only use wine for access to
Pro-Audio and multimedia applications, and for my purposes wine works
quite excellent!

although sometimes you really do have to research and even guess on
how to get certain apps to install and work properly. Today i had to
install an app as root, in order for it to install properly, then i
had to import all of the apps registry keys from /root/.wine to
/home/jordan/.wine. the app still wouldn't work. I then narrowed it
down to a C++ runtime error,
i went though found the right wine trick, viola now this app works perfectly.

I use Wine to play all of my favorite Windows(R) games.
They all play 100% perfectly on my Ubuntu Linux using Wine.
Wine is one of the greatest "reverse-engineering" applications ever made!

they all play 100% perfectly, minus 15-30% FPS. right?

but i agree, wine is definetly an amazing exercise in
reverse-engineering. It allows me to run 1000's of commercial/freeware
apps in linux....awesomeness!

[Renan Birck]

Em 12-08-2010 23:06, James McKenzie escreveu:

Since Messenger is a Windows product, I NEVER expect it to work in Wine
with a webcam.

Try some of the Linux alternates to this very broken product.

BTW, there is a nice tutorial in Wine's Applications Database on how to
get this program to work, minus webcam,

James McKenzie

The problem is that Microsoft sometimes changes the Messenger protocols,
thus breaking the Linux alternatives.

I have to keep a Windows VM around for when I need to use a webcam or
audio/video in MSN (rare fortunately, most of my contacts already use
Skype).

Renan