STEAM CHAT WORKS!!!!

[MadnessRed]

I was in steam wondering if there was any cahnce of getting steam chat to work. Anyway I send a message saying if he could read my message to change his status to busy. He did.

Then suddly I started receiving messages under steam, ok the alert comes up twice both otherwise perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fazer]

It doesn't work for me, but I had installed Steam with Wine v0.9.59. Did you do a clean install with v1.0rc1?

[MadnessRed]

Clean install, jsut got Ubuntu 8.04, installed 1.0-rc1 off package manager, tried using the .59 version then went back to 1.0-rc1

edit - somtimes I need to do somethign to make it update, however that is a simple as clicking the drop down arrow next to the person you are taking tos name, also sending a message updates or or even typing.

[Paul Johnson]

On Sunday 18 May 2008 12:31:37 pm Fazer wrote:

It doesn't work for me, but I had installed Steam with Wine v0.9.59. Did
you do a clean install with v1.0rc1?

It works for me in 0.9.58 through 1.0rc1; I haven't had to reinstall. Aside
from Auran Trainz, I don't have anything other than Steam, and a few GoldSrc
and Source games installed via Steam installed in my ~/.wine. What's
different for you?

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[Fazer]

It really works!!! I reinstalled Wine (without uninstalling), then I went to WineCFG, added Steam.exe and chose to run it as "Windows XP". Now if only I could play Team Fortress 2 on DirectX 9 with no issues...

[MadnessRed]

ok, this may be a major problem if it is linked. I am hoping and think that most likely it isn't liked but at the same time that steam chat works, one of my partitions was wiped taking a lot of linux with it, thankfully nothing fundamental. The partition that went was my DATA partition with all my programs and documents.

I don't think this has anything to do with wine but if anyone else has the same problem it may be worth looking.

[Paul Johnson]

On Monday 19 May 2008 11:50:02 am MadnessRed wrote:

ok, this may be a major problem if it is linked. I am hoping and think that
most likely it isn't liked but at the same time that steam chat works, one
of my partitions was wiped taking a lot of linux with it, thankfully
nothing fundamental. The partition that went was my DATA partition with all
my programs and documents.

Were you running wine as root? If not, it's probably entirely unrelated.

If so, it might be unrelated, but if you always log in as root, there's a good
chance it wasn't related as well: Consider that as your reason why you
shouldn't run as root.

In either case, if the files weren't writable to the user you were running as,
it wasn't wine. This gets tricky to troubleshoot if you're running as root:
All files are writeable to that user.

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[MadnessRed]

no, i don't log in as root, i don't thnk, i alway log in as anthony

i dunno if its correct but i ahve always assumed that root in linux is like the administrator account u can only get to in safe mode in windows

[dimesio]

Do you use Gnome? There was a bug in Nautilus that could cause data loss:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/188361

[brianfreytag]

I was in steam wondering if there was any cahnce of getting steam chat to work. Anyway I send a message saying if he could read my message to change his status to busy. He did.

Then suddly I started receiving messages under steam, ok the alert comes up twice both otherwise perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!

Confirmed... Except for HIM changing status, start up a chat, type something then start changing my own status (just clicking through the list for awhile). Eventually, it will update the screen and continue to work.

It's a bit of a hassle (and I haven't had the opportunity to try it with multiple chats going), but it seems to work without fail.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and wine 1.0RC3

AMD Athlon XP 2.2GHz
2GB DDR1 RAM (Dual-Channel)
Nvidia Geforce 6800n