[Wine] Disabling hal support

Daniel Skorka skorka at gmx.net
Mon May 22 06:35:36 CDT 2006


"Alexander N. Sørnes" <alex at thehandofagony.com> wrote:
> Is there a registry key or similar to disable HAL support?  I believe I 

I don't know about that, try looking in the registry where wine keeps
all its configuration (search for 'Desktop' or something similar)

> have the latest version of HAL (0.5.7), yet I have trouble running 
> Warcraft III, due to the copy protection.  If I have a symlink 'd: > 
> /mnt/cdrom', wine creates 'e: > /mnt/cdrom' and 'e:: > /dev/hdc', and if 
> I have 'd: > /mnt/cdrom' and 'd:: > /dev/hdc', Wine deletes 'd: > 
> /mnt/cdrom'.  So depending on what I do, the game either gets confused 
> by finding two identical CDs in different drives, or finds none at all, 
> and quits in both cases.

As a workaround, what happens if you have e: > /mnt/cdrom?

Daniel


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