On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have been using Gentoo Linux for a year now, > > Since early 2004 here on 30 to 50 machines (real or virtual hw) > between home and work. > >> and never have I had a problem I couldn't solve. However, not long ago I bought a 1 TB hard disk which I divided into 7 partitions: /boot, (swap), /, /var, /tmp, /usr and /home (yes, that's FreeBSD influence right there). When I finished compilation of Wine, I found I could no longer install DirectX. Age of Empires III, Black & White II and Unreal Tournament III wouldn't install either - it wouldn't budge. These are the errors DXSetup produces: >> > > You should NEVER install DirectX under wine. No...there are a few cases where it is needed, though d3dx9 is preferred (from winetricks). Where are you running the executable from? Is it one of the noexec partitions? -- -Austin
