Wine-20050111-r1 doesn't detect Half-Life CD [SOLVED]

[storri]

I cannot get wine to detect any CDs when I start an application, e.g. Half-Life. Half-LIfe is started by:

wine hl.exe -- hl.exe -- console

So I get to the menu window and I can move around. When I click on New Game or Hazard Course the game asks for the CD. The CD is already mount in the drive and Joilet and Win95 filesystem support are in the kernel.

I would appreciate help on getting this started. So far all the fixes reported on the forums or google have not helped.

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~/.wine/config
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WINE REGISTRY Version 2

[wine]
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
# [wineconf]
[Version]
"Windows" = "win98"

[DllOverrides]
"oleaut32" = "builtin, native"
"ole32" = "builtin, native"
"comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
"shell32" = "builtin, native"
"shfolder" = "builtin, native"
"shlwapi" = "builtin, native"
"shdocvw" = "builtin, native"
"advapi32" = "builtin, native"
"msvcrt" = "native, builtin"
"mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
"d3drm" = "native, builtin"
"d3dxof" = "native, builtin"
"dpnhpast" = "native, builtin"
"*" = "builtin, native"

[x11drv]
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
"Managed" = "Y"
"Desktop" = "1024x768"
"UseDGA" = "Y"
"UseXVidMode" = "Y"
"UseXRandR" = "Y"
"UseTakeFocus" = "Y"
"DXGrab" = "N"
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N"

[fonts]
"Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
"DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-"
"DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
[FontDirs]
[ppdev]
[spooler]
"FILE:" = "tmp.ps"
"LPT1:" = "|lpr"
"LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"
[ports]
[Debug]

[Clipboard]
"UsePrimary" = "0"

[afmdirs]
"1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts"
"2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm"
"3" = "/usr/share/enscript"
"4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "winealsa.drv" ; for ALSA users
"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"

[dsound]
"DefaultPlayback" = "0" ; use first device (/dev/dsp)

[Network]
[AppDefaults\\_INS0432._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
[AppDefaults\\_INS0466._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
[AppDefaults\\_INS0576._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
[AppDefaults\\_INS5176._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
[AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "800x600"
# [/wineconf]

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~/.wine/dosdevices
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 storri users 10 Apr 18 22:52 c: -> ../drive_c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 storri users 35 Apr 19 17:08 d: -> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 storri users 4 Apr 19 22:44 y: -> /tmp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 storri users 1 Apr 18 22:52 z: -> /

[storri]

It was not obvious from the online documentation until reading it a few times again that the symbolic link
for the CDROM drive needed to be to the mount point of the cdrom and not the actual device. Silly but that is what happened. Changing the symbolic link made Half-Life start a new game.