[linux-audio-user] MIDI tools in latest wine, success and ...

From: David Baron <d_baron@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 26 2006 - 15:38:17 EEST

Latest and greatest Jammer Pro6 works in latest wine from Debian Sid. No more
phantom subclassed buttons! Fantastic.

Caveats:
1. MIDI timing seems unsteady.
2. Button on a pop-up dialog that would repaint and replay the MIDI on the
main view does not work. See below.

Ntonyx Style Enhancer 4 will also install and play in wine!

Caveats:
1. NONE of the icons display--just gray boxes. (Their desktop link icon
sometimes does not display under Win98, sometimes it does. I do not know what
they are doing different than anyone else here.)
2. Button on a pop-up dialog that would repaint the main view and alter MIDI
play if be playing hangs up.

I suspect threading problems in the Wine emulation for both dialog-main
problems but not sure. Threading problems may also be effecting MIDI play
timing.

NOTE: ALL such programs need be run emulating NT,W2K or XP. Wine does NOT
support thunking.

Question: The new setup dialog (run wine with no argument an click configure)
apparently is not using the ~/.wine/config file. What does it use? I note
provision for more than one sound "driver" in that dialog--right now I only
have OSS (what I chose in ~/.wine/config because others did not work). So:

Are all the sound libraries on winelib as they were or do I need to download
separate alsa and jack, etc, packages to activate these options? (Using jack
might solve the timing issues.)

Question: Dx8 (or other) is required by some programs and their installation
does not find it. How do I get past this test and let wine do the rest?
Received on Thu Apr 27 00:15:11 2006

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