Wine not starting/Wine config not starting

[SquALeD]

Hi people first time Wine user here,

Thought I'd try wine out on my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop box as there's one or 2 windows progs I want to run.

Installed wine the way instructed on here by adding to the software sources and the install went fine. However when I try to click on 'configure wine' or try to access the notepad in Wine nothing happens although I can browse to the C: folder.

If I run winecfg in the terminal I get this output:

X Error of failed request: XF86VidModeExtensionDisabled
Major opcode of failed request: 129 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
Minor opcode of failed request: 6 (XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines)
Serial number of failed request: 85
Current serial number in output stream: 85
X Error of failed request: XF86VidModeExtensionDisabled
Major opcode of failed request: 129 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
Minor opcode of failed request: 6 (XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines)
Serial number of failed request: 85
Current serial number in output stream: 85

Whats actually supposed to happen?

I don't know if it makes any difference but I run my Ubuntu box in my workshop headless (Sorta 24/7 torrent/media streamer box) and VNC into it every now and then from a PPC Mac so no monitor. Would this make a difference? Can you even run Wine over a VNC??

Oh, the 9.04 is fully up to date as well.

Sorry to be a bit vague but I'm as new as you can get to Wine and still a fairly newb linux user

Any help would be great.. Cheers!

[SquALeD]

No worries, after looking here on the forums and looking at the appdb I dont think Ill bother with this - if I want to play games Ill get a windows box.

cya

[Silverstar]

Well, yes you can have a headless box running with a X server, VNC and wine.
I have a (fairly small on ressources) vserver (debian lenny amd64) which doesn't have any monitor. Cause I don't want to have the full X.org bundle installed on the machine, I use Xvfb together with x11vnc to have an application running in wine which depends on a grafical environment.

So I use this small, selfwritten script which initiates Xvfb, a WM (in this case: icewm, but tested fluxbox and it worked as well) and x11vnc to access the X via vnc.

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#!/bin/bash
Xvfb :0 -screen 0 1024x768x16 &
sleep 2
icewm &
sleep 1
x11vnc -display :0 -rfbport 6660 -shared -alwaysshared -usepw -forever -solid darkblue &

It might be required to

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export DISPLAY=:0

too.

~Silver

[hellork]

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If I run winecfg in the terminal I get this output:

X Error of failed request: XF86VidModeExtensionDisabled
Major opcode of failed request: 129 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
Minor opcode of failed request: 6 (XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines)
Serial number of failed request: 85
Current serial number in output stream: 85
X Error of failed request: XF86VidModeExtensionDisabled
Major opcode of failed request: 129 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
Minor opcode of failed request: 6 (XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines)
Serial number of failed request: 85
Current serial number in output stream: 85

Whats actually supposed to happen?

I don't know if it makes any difference but I run my Ubuntu box in my workshop headless (Sorta 24/7 torrent/media streamer box) and VNC into it every now and then from a PPC Mac so no monitor. Would this make a difference? Can you even run Wine over a VNC??...SNIPPED...

Not really. Wine needs OpenGL. However, it will work with VirtualGL or xf4vnc which supports OpenGL calls, but it's slow, unless you use the option where your local video card does the rendering and sends the desktop as a video stream, but even that's slow because of all the desktop captures going on. I thought they were supposed to accelerate the video capture using the recent, as of at least most video cards support it, GLX_texture_from_pixmap, but anyway, maybe it works better now. I haven't tried it in ages.

I'm rambling. This reference is more up to date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualGL