[Wine]Goldwave 5

[Leon Kackman]

Holly,

Thanks for your reply. I do have an ATI card, how do I determine which 
driver I am using. I have not added anything and just used the native 
driver in FC2.

Thanks,
Leon

Holly Bostick wrote:

> Leon Kackman wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am relatively new to Linux and wine and I am trying to run an audio 
>> editing software called Goldwave 5.06 (version 4.26 works relatively 
>> well). 5.06 installs ok but when I go to run it I get the following 
>> error:
>>
>> "Driver does not support 16 bit colour depth or visual buffer could 
>> not be created. Visual disabled."
>
>
> This suggests to me that you have an ATI card and are using the 
> closed-source ATI binary drivers to run it.
>
> If that is the case, you have a problem, because the 
> currently-available ATI drivers only run in 24-bit (which is the same 
> as 32-bit under Windows). There is no way around this until new 
> drivers become available (which are expected within a week)-- but 
> whether new drivers will run in other color depths than 24-bit is 
> unknown.
>
> If you are running such a card using such a driver, you might consider 
> switching temporarily to the VESA driver, which provides no 3D 
> acceleration (but you don't need it for this program anyway, I don't 
> think), but which does allow you to change your color depth.
>
> Sorry I can't do better, but maybe I'm completely off the mark and 
> this is not your problem at all.
>
>>
>> And the meter displays do not work. I have tried adjusting the color 
>> depth in linux to no avail. When I set the color depth to 8 bit (just 
>> to see what happens) Goldwave tells me it must have at least 16 bit.
>>
>> I am running FC2 on a dual boot system with Windows ME and I have the 
>> most recent version of wine (20041201) and wine tools 209.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
>
> See above; apparently the program needs 16-bit specifically in order 
> to display.
>
>>
>> Also, the software has trouble with my USB soundcard, it finds the 
>> soundcard but says it can't load the driver.
>>
>> Again, any thoughts?
>
>
> Sorry, no; I know nothing about USB, much less under Wine (no USB 
> devices-- yay, me ;-) !)
>
>>
>> It is really impressive what this project is doing and what I am able 
>> to do with wine.
>> Thanks much,
>> Leon
>
>
> HTH,
> Holly
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