Thanks! I could have sworn it was the codeweaver's version of wine that had set the autolaunch, but I went back and checked the /etc/rc.d/init.d/wine script from the Mandrake wine install and found the code in that script to do just what you were talking about, so I installed just the script and set it to run at boot. Problem solved! Thanks again. Hal lawson_whitney@juno.com wrote: > On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> I had a little trouble installing WINE and, becuase of that, tried >> several >> different versions. It turned out the sound trouble was not a WINE >> issue, but a devfs issue, so I deactivated devfs (devfs=nomount). >> >> I am using the latest RPM of Codeweaver's WINE with Mandrake 8.1. >> >> I've got Codeweaver's WINE up and running now. When I first tried this, >> I could type a win .exe file from the console and run it without typing >> wine >> [win_exe_name]. I could run a win exe from Konqueror by just clicking on >> it. >> >> That doesn't work now, with a new install. Did I set something up wrong? >> Or is there another version that handles the "autolaunch" by detecting >> the executable type and running WINE automatically? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Hal > > That's not exactly wine that does that, or needs to be set up to do > that. It is a kernel feature called binfmt_misc, normally configured as > a module binfmt_misc.o that the Linux System Administrator needs to > decide if it wants to enable and configure. Some Wine packages may take > it upon themselves to configure it "for you" behind your back, but I > guess you uninstalled those packages cleanly before installing the Wine > you have now. The doco for it is in > <linux>/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt if you would like to take a swat > at setting it up by hand. I did it once, just to see if it would work, > but I didn't bother to make a script for it. > > It was probably your distro's Wine rpm or so that did that. Distros > tend to be a little cavalier about making decisions for the system > administrator, and about dropping things into the startup scripts, which > are somewhat distro specific. OTOH, she had warts, and the version of > wine in that is probably hideously obsolets. If you don't want to > bother picking apart the rpm to find the little part that sets up > binfmt_misc, this nasty little script works for me. Of course, if your > wine executable is named something else, you must change the script or > it won't work. > > #!/bin/sh > /sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc > /bin/mount -t binfmt_misc oops /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > echo ':windose:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/wine:' \ >>/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register > > The backslash at the end of the 4th line just continues the line. It is > not part of the syntax. > > Lawson > ---oof---
