* DB Troll (hdbtroll@moment.net) [021111 17:33]:

OK I see that my sound card is sharing with my modem is there any way to get one or the other not to share this IRQ, as I feel this may be the problem with my machine doing a restart at random when I have a cd playing and am online.

Depends on your motherboard, some insist on having two pci slots share an interrupt. Check the bios for relevant settings and/or swap the positions of the cards on the bus. -- -ckm

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:06:50 -0700 Forrest Halford wrote:

In setting up WINE I see that I have to choose a file for the location of the windows root directory and a WINE configuration file, Are these important where I put them?

I want to use Agent as my email program and it seems that I remember where someone was saying that it is important about where you put these files?

Advice?

Well I did some things with agent awhile ago, and havn't had the need to change things, so I will explain what I did, but there may be better method. But my agent is running "fast and fine" out of my homedir, with no real windows partition. First, I installed Agent in my dual booted windows partition, and then installed wine with "c" as my windows partition. It is the normal setup, and I did it that way, because "back then" the wine version couldn't handle the "install process". From what I've been reading, agent now will install to a "fake-windows" directory under wine; but I'm not about to mess up "my fine setup" just to test it out. :-) Then I just copied my c:\agent directory to /home/zentara/agent, deleted /.wine and reinstalled wine, this time using "fake windows". I accepted the defaults for installing. Then I just run agent right out of /home/zentara/agent with "wine /home/zentara/agent/agent.exe" I may have had to move a file or two around, or tweak the config file for directory names, I don't recall. But if you get an error upon starting, just note what file it is looking for, and copy it from where it is to where wine is looking for it. One thing I did have trouble with is the "cached metrics". Whenever something changed in the font directory, agent would take a long time to start while it set the "cached metrics". After searching for answers on the net, I came to the following solution. Put this line in your wine config: [fonts] "FontMetrics" = "/home/zentara/.wine/cachedmetrics.:0.0" and make the cachedmetrics:0:0 file read-only So say after running suseconfig, wine starts giving you the "cached-metrics" warning, just delete cachedmetrics:0:0 and start agent, after the cached-metrics get rebuilt, go and make cachedmetrics:0:0 a read only file. Here are some relevant sections of my wine config file: ##################################################### WINE REGISTRY Version 2 ;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config [Drive C] "Path" = "/home/zentara/.wine/fake_windows" "Type" = "hd" "Label" = "/home/zentara/.wine/fake_windows" "Filesystem" = "win95" [Drive X] "Type" = "hd" "Path" = "/tmp" "Label" = "Tmp Drive" "FS" = "win95" [Drive Y] "Type" = "network" "Path" = "${HOME}" "Label" = "Home" "FS" = "win95" [Drive Z] "Type" = "network" "Path" = "/" "Label" = "Root" "FS" = "win95" [wine] "Windows" = "C:\\Windows" "System" = "C:\\Windows\\system" "Path" = "C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\system;X:\\;Y:\\" "Temp" = "X:\\" "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv" "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink" # <wineconf> [DllOverrides] "kernel32" = "builtin" "gdi32" = "builtin" "user32" = "builtin" .... ..... "*" = "builtin, so, native" [fonts] "FontMetrics" = "/home/zentara/.wine/cachedmetrics.:0.0" ; [serialports] "Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0" "Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1" "Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2" "Com4" = "/dev/modem" -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation