you might also want to look at qemu. It's a free alternative to vmware that is pretty accessible, and might give you better results then wine. Qemu uses commandline options to run instead of a gui configuration like vmware does, so you could write a shell script to start it and launch that from inside an x session. On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:02:02AM +0200, Christian wrote: > Hello, > Yes, it is set to emulate Win2000. I read in the user documentation that the config file was disabled, instead they use the win registry from what they call it. > One thing I also did was copying the entire c:\wineyes folder from my Windows partition into my Linux system. > After that I tried running > wine wineyes.exe but it didn't work either. > Will try setting it to Win95/98 but with some help then. > The other none free alternative is Vmware Workstation where you install Windows onto a virtual machine, but programs might become slow so I am not considering that. Also don't think it is accessible either. > All the best, > Christian > > > On 2006-07-09 at 14:01 Gregory Nowak wrote: > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:33:31PM +0200, Christian wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> Now I have installed Wine but there are problems when it comes to > >configuration. winecfg requires X. I tried running it with Gnopernicus but > >Gnopernicus goes completely silent. > > > >It sounds like winecfg, and maybe wine itself, isn't a gnome > >compatible program then. Back when I tried wine, there was a shell > >script that was text-based, and it let you do the configuration in the > >text console, so that after it finished, you could simply just run wine. > > > >> I downloaded Window-Eyes 5.5 Demo and ran it. I have to run it from an X > >console. I simply type: > >> wine we55demo.exe > >> After that I get three click sounds and Window-Eyes comes up with a > >prerecorded message that before the Window-Eyes can continue, your system > >needs to be restarted. Well, I have run this two times but still the same > >thing. > > > >Hmm, interesting. It doesn't generate any click sounds when natively > >running under windows, at least it hasn't for me. As for the restart > >message, it sounds like wine is configured to emulate a windows > >2k/xp/2k3 system, in which case, wineyes is installing the wineyes > >video driver, and since you're being prompted to restart over, and over > >again, it's apparently not succeeding in getting itself chained > >into the wine video setup, which is very well within the realm of > >possibilities. You might just have to settle for running wine as an > >emulated win95/98/me setup. > > > >Greg > > > > > >- -- > >web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > >gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > >skype: gregn1 > >(authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > > >- -- > >Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > >iD8DBQFEsW6U7s9z/XlyUyARAgT3AJ9xE3X1sH80ui7oOmd8OIrrJ9IxAACfSABx > >ZQIAV+PPRc1hpFHxkzwbvuY= > >=Yjor > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste -- ksh at cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93
