[Wine] Problem with a program called winbox

Charles Davis cdavis at mymail.mines.edu
Sat May 14 20:01:04 CDT 2011


On 5/14/11 6:56 PM, Butch Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 16:42 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>> On 5/14/11 3:00 AM, Butch Evans wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 21:14 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>>>> This may be a video driver issue.  AMD/ATI video cards are known to have
>>>> less the high quality drivers, lntel drivers are the worst an nVidia are
>>>> the best for Linux and Wine.
>>> I tried to install the nvidia drivers, but could not find the proper
>>> driver.
>> nVidia drivers do not work with Intel video systems
>>>
>>>
>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor
>>> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>>
>> This is definitely a Intel video.
> 
> Yes.  Here's what the Hardware Maintenance manual says:
> 
> Graphic Memory Chip:
> * Intel HM55 integrated
> * nVidia N11M-GE1 with 512M DDR3 VRAM
> 
> This has me a bit confused.  I agree that the system is not "seeing" an
> nVidia card, but not sure why the HMM lists it.  SIGH.
I get it. You've got one of those dual video card setups where the
system normally uses the integrated graphics, but (at least in theory)
pulls out the nVidia chip for heavy-duty stuff like games.

Last I checked, this needed kernel support under Linux. You'll have to
ask your distro for help at this point.

Chip




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