On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 14:38 -0500, jpearls wrote: > 1. What does ~ mean? cd ie. "~/.wine/drive_c/" ~ is your home directory, probably something like "/home/jpearls" > 2. Steam runs. Hurray. But I can't chat with friends. I can see > their messages, but not mine. I assume they never get them because > they never say anything more. I've noticed Steam chat is somewhat hit or miss even in Windows. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it also happens to my Windows-using friends. We just use XMPP instead for chat even when we're all logged into Steam. > 3. I launch TF2, I get the valve logo, source logo, then BAM back to > desktop. No error boxes. And my screen resolution stays "minimized" > to what tf2 was launched at. It sounds like you may not have followed instructions, then. Take another look and see if you can find what you're doing wrong. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9901 > 4. I can't get utorrent to launch from links in firefox; everything > else about both programs works perfectly. I've tried three scripts: [...] > So? You might try starting off at the AppDB with this one, too. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6824 Though I strongly suggest looking at native BitTorrent clients, as there's a considerable number of quality BitTorrent clients already available on Linux. > 5. Is there a program or website that will verify you have the latest > drivers? Is that something built into ubuntu? Which drivers? For most drivers, they're already included with the Linux kernel and they're kept up to date for you as long as you're tracking a relatively recent stable kernel version. -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080619/5dbfb1e8/attachment.pgp
