I am currently running Skype version 1.3 on a Linux Mandriva 2006 system. It works well, but the Windows version is really superior, supporting several interesting features missing from the Linux version. So I tried to use wine for that. I am not familiar with wine (never need Windows programs, really) and I tried to use what had been installed by Mandriva. Testing wine, it's all right with the preconfigured programs I can access from the wine menu. Trying to use Skype, i get some error messages: fixme:actctx:QueryActCtxW stub! fixme:commctrl:InitCommonControlsEx Unknown class! dwICC=0x4000 fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB copy fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB copy fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB copy fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB copy if I use 'nt40', and messages inviting to use nt40 (or win31) if I leave automatically detection possible. The Skype error windows opens and a message (in Italian) saying that Skype needs several more files is displayed (not really helpful). Browsing the debug output, I think that the clue may be in lines as this one: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Programmi/Skype/Phone/advapi32.dll warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/k: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system/advapi32.dll warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/advapi32.dll warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"C\\windows\\advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/k: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system/advapi32.dll warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Programmi/Skype/Phone/advapi32.dll warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/k: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system/advapi32.dll warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/advapi32.dll warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"C\\windows\\advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/k: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"advapi32.dll" not found in /home/guido/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system/advapi32.dll Is it a problem of path? Thanks a lot to those who will kindly help me. guido, italy _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
