Wine in Puppy 4 (Solved)

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Th3_uN1Qu3 · #1 Post by **Th3_uN1Qu3** » Sun 27 Jul 2008, 11:55

First, i was pretty surprised Wine isn't available in the package manager. Second, i was even more surprised that the dotpup system was deprecated. Third, i was downright pissed to find that Wine does not work at all after installing from dotpup.

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wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination. It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.
Segmentation fault

That's all it does. So how do i install this glibc with NPTL it's talking about? Can i even do it without breaking Puppy since it's a core OS component? I didn't find it in dotpups.de so i'm reluctant to install it from anywhere else.

I do not have the resources for virtualization so please don't talk about that. Besides, i need a bit of 3D support. And it used to work in 3.10...

disciple · #2 Post by **disciple** » Sun 27 Jul 2008, 12:03

Last time I tried wine in Puppy it was appropriate to just ignore the NPTL/TLS message. But obviously you can't ignore a segfault.
That Wine would have been packaged on a very old Puppy, so it isn't surprising that it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure I saw not long ago a package for Puppy 4 of Wine 1.1.1, so I suggest you search the forum for that.

Th3_uN1Qu3 · #3 Post by **Th3_uN1Qu3** » Sun 27 Jul 2008, 12:05

It would help to have this "new" package in the package manager, you know? Alright, looking for it.

disciple · #4 Post by **disciple** » Sun 27 Jul 2008, 12:15

Yes, but Barry doesn't make Wine packages, and they are updated frequently. I guess we do need a package manager for community packages, but at the moment the forum is really our package manager

There was also a recent page talking about the best way of installing a Wine that isn't packaged for Puppy - I think people still use Slackware 10.2 packages, but I'm not sure.

Th3_uN1Qu3 · #5 Post by **Th3_uN1Qu3** » Sun 27 Jul 2008, 13:07

Found it, installed, installed OpenGL too, well, it sort of works. I didn't play that much CS anyway.

Not related to Wine, but is there any gamma calibration software for Puppy? On its default settings my laptop LCD looks like poop.

trapster · #6 Post by **trapster** » Sun 27 Jul 2008, 13:33

is there any gamma calibration software for Puppy?

Maybe xgamma ?

Th3_uN1Qu3 · #7 Post by **Th3_uN1Qu3** » Sun 27 Jul 2008, 15:35

No matter what i set in xgamma, nothing happens.

disciple · #8 Post by **disciple** » Sun 27 Jul 2008, 22:42

I think that means whatever driver Puppy is using for your video card doesn't support gamma calibration - at least at the screen resolution and refresh rate you are using.

Th3_uN1Qu3 · #9 Post by **Th3_uN1Qu3** » Mon 28 Jul 2008, 00:42

See, that's what's keeping me running 'doze. There are no other Trident drivers, and as you can see the existing ones suck even more than the windoze versions. Not to mention it has to run OpenGL in Linux, at which the chip Fails, with a capital F.

nitehawk · #10 Post by **nitehawk** » Mon 28 Jul 2008, 01:19

I got my wine pet package from:
http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/bugs/

It's working in my Dingo very well,.......

disciple · #11 Post by **disciple** » Mon 28 Jul 2008, 01:26

Doesn't your monitor have any hardware colour controls?

Th3_uN1Qu3 · #12 Post by **Th3_uN1Qu3** » Mon 28 Jul 2008, 01:28

disciple wrote:Doesn't your monitor have any hardware colour controls?

It's an oldish thin-and-light laptop (see sig). Would you expect color controls on that?

disciple · #13 Post by **disciple** » Mon 28 Jul 2008, 03:50

If it has acpi, look to see if anything like /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness exists.
If there are things like that, you may be able to improve the display by playing around with them, e.g. if that particular file exists, you would read the current brightness value by running

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cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness

And you would run

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echo -n 100 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness

to set the brightness to 100%.

I read that this will only work in some Toshiba laptops if you update the BIOS.

Th3_uN1Qu3 · #14 Post by **Th3_uN1Qu3** » Mon 28 Jul 2008, 08:54

It has acpi, in fact it only works in acpi mode. And it also has the latest bios. If i'll only have brightness controls that's pretty useless, since FnFX takes care of that anyway. I need individual gamma settings for r/g/b to make it look good.

disciple · #15 Post by **disciple** » Mon 28 Jul 2008, 11:47

Will you only have brightness controls?
I just suggested looking to see if you have things like that - I have no idea if there might be anything else - my old machine only works properly with apm

But I didn't know about FnFX. I guess if it doesn't do it and xgamma doesn't, it probably can't be done.

trapster · #16 Post by **trapster** » Mon 28 Jul 2008, 15:37

This looks interesting if you're curious at all.

also found where someone got this to work. No idea what the numbers mean:). "Gamma" added to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Obviously....use at your own risk!!

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Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Vendor0"
	ModelName    "P96"
	DisplaySize  330   240
	HorizSync    30.0 - 94.0
	VertRefresh  48.0 - 120.0
	Gamma 1.05 1.15 1.136
EndSection

Sit Heel Speak · #17 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Mon 28 Jul 2008, 17:34

monica.

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Wine in Puppy 4 (Solved)

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