[Wine] Problem with a program called winbox
Butch Evans
butche at butchevans.com
Sat May 14 20:33:41 CDT 2011
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 19:01 -0600, Charles Davis wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the input. I now have a game plan to move forward. FWIW,
when I ran Ubuntu live cd a few days ago, the specific issue I was
having did not exist. Perhaps I'll just switch to Ubuntu, though I
don't like the sound of that very much...thanks again!
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