On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 14:38, Andreas Tille <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 06:42:43AM +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote: >> If it needs drivers to talk to the GPS device, Wine won't work, except >> maybe for USB-to-serial devices... (If the GPS is accessed as >> mass-storage there might be hope as well...) > > We are not yet here! The programm has some use even without the > actual device (USB) and the problem occures in the very first step > of the *installer* of the program. Please have a look at I just meant that if you want to sync your GPS, you might be wasting your time... > $ wine MapSource_6157.exe > wine: created the configuration directory '/home/tillea/.wine' > ALSA lib ../../../src/seq/seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory > Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled. If the installer uses HTML (which it seemed to last time tried it (whitish GUI)) this is your problem... winetricks should be able to fix that.... (gecko is the verb you're looking for...) See http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko (Wine will also use Gecko from somewhere under /usr/lib...) (/usr/share/wine/gecko for me...) You can download it from here: http://sf.net/projects/wine/files/ A package should exist for this... Gert