Comments on Ubuntu on the Dell Inspiron 1501: Installing Wine in Gutsy Gibbon

Oops, never mind. After closing the Wine config d...

2007-12-15T20:25:00.000-06:00

Oops, never mind. After closing the Wine config dialog and opening it again, sound started working. Maybe it took time for something to start up. I had hit "apply" a bunch of times, but that wasn't enough.

I just realized that audio is failing in Wine unde...

2007-12-15T20:05:00.000-06:00

I just realized that audio is failing in Wine under Gutsy 64-bit.

In the configuration dialog, the "ALSA" driver was unchecked - checking it does not get sound working and the "Test Sound" button always returns "Audio Test Failed".

Of course sound is working outside of Wine.

Does anyone have an idea what I should do?

One thing that bothers me about Wine is that the s...

2007-12-15T03:35:00.000-06:00

One thing that bothers me about Wine is that the sub-pixel rendering in the free-type rendering has been disabled.

If you google around you will find out that this was deliberate, that the option was turned of in the compile in order to avoid being sued by Microsoft, even though Ubuntu has sub-pixel font rendering turned on for regular Gnome programs.

It's a problem for me because I use some Japanese software, and those complex Chinese characters they use are hard to read without the sub-pixel rendering.

If anyone knows how to build Wine from source so I can enable the sub-pixel rendering on my own machine, I'd be grateful.

Even more so if you can figure out how to compile and configure it to work.

Thanks Ken, that makes a huge difference! I'm putt...

2007-12-11T09:04:00.000-06:00

Thanks Ken, that makes a huge difference! I'm putting it in the guide.

Look in here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/commu...

2007-12-11T08:02:00.000-06:00

Look in here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

The link will explain how to change wine so that it matches the default ubuntu colors, and will also explain how to install msstyle themes to your wine installation.

if you use winedoors you can install a ubuntu colo...

2007-12-10T10:58:00.000-06:00

if you use winedoors you can install a ubuntu colour theme for wine

preview:
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z76/tomdwright/screenshot1-1.png

You can also set wine colors.

2007-12-09T02:12:00.000-06:00

You can also set wine colors.

In winecfg there is an option under the graphics t...

2007-12-08T14:51:00.000-06:00

In winecfg there is an option under the graphics tab to allow gtk to manage the windows, that way it will look nicer.

Using wine i am able to run Wacraft 3 in gutsy, but here is a detail that should improve the performace with any game: reduce the priority of the wineserver process (you can do that in administration - system monitor and selecting wineserver or using the command:
nice -n 20 wineserver ).

Finaly remember to always check http://appdb.winehq.org/ to look if the software you want to install with wine work in ubuntu.

Comments on Ubuntu on the Dell Inspiron 1501: Installing Wine in Gutsy Gibbon

Oops, never mind. After closing the Wine config d...

I just realized that audio is failing in Wine unde...

One thing that bothers me about Wine is that the s...

Thanks Ken, that makes a huge difference! I'm putt...

Look in here:https://help.ubuntu.com/commu...

if you use winedoors you can install a ubuntu colo...

You can also set wine colors.

In winecfg there is an option under the graphics t...

Look in here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/commu...