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_venturax_
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 Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 1:00 pm Post subject: running mIRC in wine crashes |
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I'm a total newbie in the Linux world, so I might be asking stupid questions
I have two machines, one with XP and one with Gentoo 1.4_rc1. Now my goal is to switch entirely to the gentoo system, but i need to have a working mIRC client installed. Since this was a windows app, i emerged wine.
After having emerged wine as root, I logged in as my normal user, then typing "wine". Then it created my .wine/fake_windows directory plus some other things
Then I copied my mIRC directory from my XP machine and put it in fake_windows on the Gentoo system.
Then I open a terminal and enter the mIRC directory.
Typing "wine mirc.exe" results in this:
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libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
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A little headline box is drawn. (i suspect this to be the wine application), but mirc.exe is not running
i have edited the config file to point the c drive to fake_windows.
A pal of mine is running it perfectly, and he has done the same thing, only his is a 1.2 Gentoo system. Could this be a gcc3.2 compiler issue?!?
Hope any of you guys can help me out on this one.
I have searched the forums at winehq, but didn't find anything usefull.
Best Regards
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why mIRC? ...try BitchX, XBitxhX, epic, or other linux IRC clients  ...ther's thousands of them ...and they're all (some more some less) worth looking at
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ups, sorry ...i forgot to mention: don't trust wine at every point - it's "emulating" wintendo, so be prepared to have similar problems 
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_venturax_
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I need mIRC, due to a blowfish dll that is not standard "blowfish", and only mirc uses this.. Hence i need to get mirc to work 
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Craigo
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Look at Xchat =) It's good enough for newbies!
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weeeeeeeell ... i doubt, you need mIRC, but i have no clue how to solve the problem, because i never managed to install wine (tried it once and never again) 
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arkane
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| Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Craigo wrote: | Look at Xchat =) It's good enough for newbies!
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And those that really don't need all the features of IRC.
Like myself. |
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arkane
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| _venturax_ wrote: | | I need mIRC, due to a blowfish dll that is not standard "blowfish", and only mirc uses this.. Hence i need to get mirc to work |
I have gotten mIRC to run under wine, but I forget what version I was using. I did it to see if I could lol
I didn't do anything out of the ordinary to get it running, either. I used tkwineconfig to setup my .winex directory and stuff, then ran wine on the mIRC binary installer. It was a bit messy, though.. I would never recommend it, it's slow as all hell on a 1.8 Ghz system. |
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Matje
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I got mIRC running under wine though I don't know what version and I can't check atm because I'm far away from my gentoo box I'll check and let you know though.
And for those of you wondering why anyone would want mirc: It's just a good-looking GUI irc-client, and the scripting is real easy. Something I regret to say I haven't found for linux yet. atm I'm trying kvirc but that's not working very well either. And yes, I tried xchat, and no, I didn't like... |
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