I'm running on a newly-built Fedora 12 system (downloaded the ISO, burned it, and installed it, wiping the machine in the process). I installed Wine via "yum install wine" and then tried installing EverQuest 2. Attempts were made in accordance with various suggestions from this website and forum and that for EQ2: A) downloading the trial version; B) downloading the EQ2 installer; C) connecting my old drive and copying the EQ2 folder, then running "wine ./EQ2.exe"; D) going back to the old drive and firing Wine directly from there. In all cases, horrible failure. Along the way I'd configured wine (via the GUI winecfg) to produce a 1024x768 window. I also attempted to set the audio, but it generated a re-entrant failure (clicking on Close popped a level N+1 repeat of the window; I used "kill" to blow away 30 or so winedbg processes). Just for masochistic pleasure, I tried installing Civ 4 by stuffing in the disk, starting up a terminal, CDing to the disk and typing "wine ./Setup.exe". As with trying with EQ2.exe, abject failure with messages such as: fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly "Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0) and Trying to load PE image for unsupported architecture (IA-64) wine: could not load L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\InstallShield\\Professional\\RunTime\\11\\00\\Intel32\\ISBEW64.exe" : Bad EXE format for (the message was cut off at this point) My conclusion was that I'd screwed up installing Wine. I uninstalled Wine by using "yum remove wine", and then manually deleting the .wine subdirectory in my home directory. I reinstalled Wine via "yum install wine*". Note the addition of the asterisk. In the process, it told me that it still had Wine installed, which confused me somewhat; evidently "remove" doesn't. I was trying to get 1.0.1, the one you list as "last stable", I actually installed 1.1.32. I couldn't find a way to get 1.0.1 instead, so I went with what I got. With it in, I went back into winecfg and started configuring. I set up "No, don't let Windows decorate" and a 1024x768 window. I set up a new directory (D: as /wine/D/). I looked at Drivers (nothing) and then clicked on the Audio tab. This is the message that popped up, same as from my earlier attempt at installation / configuration: -------------------- There is no audio driver currently specified in the registry. A recommended driver has been selected for you. You can use this driver or select another driver if available. You must click Apply for the selection to take effect. <OK> -------------------- When I click <OK>, the following re-entrant window pops up: -------------------- The program winecfg.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. <Assorted boilerplate> <Close> ------------------- Each click of <Close> brings up another instance of winedbg. The question is, what have I done wrong? According to everybody else around here, it should be nearly idiot-proof. I must be a special sort of idiot because I've gone through as much of the FAQ as I thought applied to what I'm doing, and so far it's been of no help. Ken Andrews
