Asus Support DVD

[Prtchrdbill]

I have installed Asus E35M1-M motherboard and run Ubuntu 10.04.Is it possible to jnstall Asus support DVD (it supports Windows XP/Vista/win7) using Wine?Please advise.
William

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Prtchrdbill <[email protected]> wrote:

I have installed Asus E35M1-M motherboard and run Ubuntu 10.04.Is it possible to jnstall Asus support DVD (it supports Windows XP/Vista/win7) using Wine?Please advise.
William

What are you expecting to get from this support dvd. Drivers obviously
will not work. Neither will flashing a bios.

John M. Drescher

[Prtchrdbill]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Prtchrdbill <[email protected]> wrote:

I have installed Asus E35M1-M motherboard and run Ubuntu 10.04.Is it possible to jnstall Asus support DVD (it supports Windows XP/Vista/win7) using Wine?Please advise.
William

What are you expecting to get from this support dvd. Drivers obviously
will not work. Neither will flashing a bios.

John M. Drescher

The manual says the DVD contains drivers, software applications and utilities that you can install to avail all motherboard features.I get a screen with wine which says what to download eg drivers utilities manual disk Norton. I was hoping to get something useful. It looks like a waste of time to me. Do you agree? William

[John Drescher]

The manual says the  DVD contains drivers, software applications and utilities that you can install to avail all motherboard features.I get a screen with wine which says what to download  eg drivers utilities manual disk Norton. I was hoping to get something useful.  It looks like a waste of time to me. Do you agree? William

Windows drivers do not work in linux/wine so these are not useful.
Also any software that directly contacts hardware (like windows
temperature or processor monitoring software) will not work in wine.
For both of these there are linux utilities. The manual will probably
work but no need to install accrobat in wine since there is a linux
native version.

John

[Prtchrdbill]

The manual says the  DVD contains drivers, software applications and utilities that you can install to avail all motherboard features.I get a screen with wine which says what to download  eg drivers utilities manual disk Norton. I was hoping to get something useful.  It looks like a waste of time to me. Do you agree? William

Windows drivers do not work in linux/wine so these are not useful.
Also any software that directly contacts hardware (like windows
temperature or processor monitoring software) will not work in wine.
For both of these there are linux utilities. The manual will probably
work but no need to install accrobat in wine since there is a linux
native version.

John

Thanks for your help.William

[SpawnHappyJake]

... but no need to install accrobat in wine since there is a linux native version.

Jsyk, there's an open source program called "Evince" that loads PDFs faster than Adobe Acrobat. And oddly, in Windows, Google Chrome actually loads PDFs faster than Evince, so I actually use Google Chrome as my program to open PDFs in Windows.
Cheers,
Jake