On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 06:46 -0600, lsmod wrote: > 1) When the application will run in "Windows ME" emulation it would be the easiest > way to do this. > But i have seen more problems than in the "Windows 2000" emulation. > > 2) I asked to change the testprogram, so i hope we can test this. > > 3) Every workaround is really far away from the original application and should be > the last option. The goal was to use the existing engine and drivers to access > an graphic LCD-display. If there is much to do in Linux stuff, it would be > better to develope in the real linux project. > http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/ > Yes, I would agree. Have you looked at porting LCDHype to Linux? BTW, the lcd4linux website says that using /dev/lp* doesn't work, so you should try using /dev/parport* instead. Note that some distros use /dev/parports/* while others, such as Fedora, use /dev/parport* > Another question: > Normally there is shown important system information on an LCD-Display. > This information is normally grabbed via the Windows "performance helper api". > In Linux nearly all of this information can be grabbed via shell commands from the system. > Is it possible to submit a shell command in wine and fetch the output? > It should also be available via the /proc pseudo-file system. By default drive z: is a symlink to /, so you can access /proc as z:\proc from Wine. You can't see it in winefile for some reason and running 'dir' in wine's command shell doesn't show it, but this Wine shell command works: Z:\>type z:\proc\version Linux version 2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu Dec 10 11:00:29 EST 2009 Z:\> This means that you should be able to open the pseudo files in /proc from a Wine application and read their contents, which will give you much of the system information that Linux utility programs can show. It is also possible to run Linux programs via a shell: look in the Wine wiki for details. Martin
