[Wine] Wine on MacBook - Linux and OS X problems
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 25 12:03:29 CDT 2009
motorollin wrote:
> James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> This appears to be really interesting as Ubuntu should be using a
>> different driver than MacOSX.
>>
>
> Indeed. Makes me wonder whether it is actually a hardware incompatibility? Is that possible?
>
Not incompatible, but poorly written drivers. My MacBook Pro has an ATI
card in it. AMD/ATI drivers for Linux are problematic, to put it best.
>
> James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> Have you tried Ubuntu 8.1 native to see
>> if that works? If that does not work, then this may be an issue to
>> bring up with Apple and Ubuntu.
>>
>
> No, I haven't tried it yet as it would mean re-downloading the ISO. I'll do that and try it.
>
Thank you. Sorry for the duplicate download, but I don't run anything
on my Mac but MacOSX.
>
> James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> Also, did you try XQuartz 2.3.3? I know that it requires Leopard 10.5.7
>> to install.
>>
>
> 10.5.7 isn't out yet, so I can't try it.
>
>
I will keep on checking. I've also asked Mike about his plans for
building Wine for MacOSX with this release.
> Will try 8.1 native and report back!
>
>
>
Please do. If problems continue, please file a report with Ubuntu.
James McKenzie
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