[Wine] Wine on MacBook - Linux and OS X problems

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 26 17:25:09 CDT 2009


motorollin wrote:
> Ok, here's an updated table of results. I have added results for Ubuntu 8.10 native, and X.org versions for all OSs.
>
> OS / Method / Wine Version / X.org Version/ Outcome: 
>
> OS X Leopard / Native / Various / 1.4.2-apple41 / Black screen or freeze 
> Ubuntu 9.04 / Native / 1.0.1 / 1.6.0 / Black screen or freeze
> Ubuntu 8.10 / Native / 1.0.1 / 1.5.2 / Black screen or freeze
> Ubuntu 8.10 / Parallels / 1.0.1 / 1.5.2 / Fully working 
> Ubuntu 9.04 / Parallels / 1.0.1 / 1.6.0 / Fully working
>
>
> As you can see, Wine version and X.org version are the same in the native and virtual versions of each OS. The only thing that changes each time is the method (native vs. Parallels) and hence, presumably, the driver being used for the video card.
>   
We are making assumptions that the video card is accessed the same way
by Native and Parallels installations, and that may not be so.

It appears that MacOSX will not allow you to run the application in any
case.

James McKenzie




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