Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine on AMD64?

[Mark Knecht]

On Jan 20, 2008 11:16 AM, Stratos Psomadakis <el05007@×××××××××.gr> wrote:
>
> O/H Mark Knecht έγραψε:
> > On Jan 20, 2008 10:46 AM, Stratos Psomadakis <el05007@×××××××××.gr> wrote:
> >
> >> O/H Mark Knecht έγραψε:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>    I got interested in looking at Wine again this week. Netflix has
> >>> changed their over the net policies for watching movies, changing it
> >>> for a specific number of hours per month to an unlimited service. I
> >>> haven't used the service much in the past (watched maybe 40 hours over
> >>> the last year) because it required me to both go into Windows AND use
> >>> Internet Explorer instead of Firefox. With an unlimited watching
> >>> policy it now becomes far more interesting to me if it could work in
> >>> Linux.
> >>>
> >>>    With a lot of forum threads about how much better Wine has gotten
> >>> on games I thought I'd give it a try. I emerged the newest stable
> >>> version of Wine, downloaded Internet Explorer 7.0 and tried to get it
> >>> started. The immediate result was Wine failed to install IE7. I looked
> >>> around the WineHQ site but didn't find much specific on Wine in a
> >>> 64-bit environment so I'm wondering if many people here are using it
> >>> that way and what the tricks are these days to actually getting
> >>> something to work AND work well?
> >>>
> >>>    Even if IE7 works then I'll have to see if the NetFlix integrated
> >>> player works. I suspect it won't but I'm taking this one step at a
> >>> time.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Mark
> >>>
> >>>
> >> i use wine on amd64, without any major problems...
> >> i use it for playing some old games i have,without having to switch to
> >> windoze...
> >>
> >> guitar pro 5 also plays well...
> >>
> >> if anything goes wrong, i check the appdb in winehq.org...
> >> usually there are guides and howtos to work around the problem...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the info. That's good to know and it sounds like you're not
> > doing much of anything AMD64 specific?
> >
> > Also, if you are using the newest version of Wine have you ever tried
> > setting it up from scratch with your apps instead of relying on
> > existing .wine directories? It seems to me that the wine developers
> > often want it both ways. They say that an app works, but it turns out
> > it works only with either an older version of Wine or a new version of
> > Wine but only with an older, prexisting .wine directory. When I go to
> > set up the same app on a new machine from scratch I cannot duplicate
> > what the AppDB says.
> >
> > Just my experience.
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> > �ιν'�¦w�%�Λl�ιν'�+�f'�)ΰ�+-
> well...
> i have never tried to set it up from scratch...so i don't know what
> happens...
> winecfg doesn't help?
>
> what do you mean amd64 specific?

I don't think winecfg helps. Looking in the AppDB it seems that IE7
doesn't install for anyone that I can find so far.

I just meant Wine on AMD64, i.e. - the machines on this list. My
interest in using Wine for NetFlix will be multimedia intensive, so it
will likely require codec and stuff like that to work well. Much of
that stuff hardly works on 32-bit Linux. I was interested in whether
power users, not dummies like me, we able to get good results. If they
can then possibly by trying hard someone like me might. If they can't
then I know I never will.

Thanks,
Mark
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