[Wine] Installing wine on an Asus EEEPC 901

[Austin English]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Keith Duffin <kduffingb at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to install wine on an Asus EEEPC 901. Every thing goes as
> expected until I receive the following FATAL error.
>
> What is the problem and what can I do about it?
>
> If I then try winecfg I receive the error messages further down.
>
> winefile appears to behave correctly but iexplorer remains blank even after
> Gecko is installed. Notepad appears to work ok.
>
> Setting up libwine-print (1.0.0-1+eeepc2) ...
> Setting up libwine-sane (1.0.0-1+eeepc2) ...
> Setting up wine-bin (1.0.0-1+eeepc2) ...
> FATAL: Module binfmt_misc not found.
> update-binfmts: warning: Couldn't load the binfmt_misc module.

Your distro should provide that, not wine.

> Setting up wine-utils (1.0.0-1+eeepc2) ...
> Setting up wine (1.0.0-1+eeepc2) ...
>
> This happens when I try winecfg
>
> /home/user> winecfg
> wine: created the configuration directory '/home/user/.wine'
> ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such
> file or directory
> Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
> wine: configuration in '/home/user/.wine' has been updated.
> ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such
> file or directory

Those errors aren't fatal, just means your distro's ALSA configuration
is screwy. Does winecfg not work?

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-Austin