[Wine] Garry's Mod Questions

[Jim Hall]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:10 AM, jorl17 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

>
> saronn wrote:
> > Ugh, I feel terrible. It's midnight, I just capped my internet connection
> downloading files I found out I don't need, and I have no idea where to go
> next. What do other people do that I need to do? What do other people have
> that I don't have? I'm back to square one after 3 weeks. Shouldn't there be
> ANY explanation to what I have to do? Other people install Linux and all
> they have to do is download a file. Some don't even have to do ANYTHING. I'm
> tired, annoyed, and frustrated. I think I might go get some sleep. I know
> only a few of you can help me, but please, I'll try anything.
>
>
> Calm down, relax, Unix is evil I know it.
> When I told you about lspci I assumed that your distro had it. (If you're
> not running one of those user-friendlier distros like ubuntu or fedora or
> banana you should ;)). Most distros already have that application within
> them. Maybe you should open up a terminal console and type that: lspci. Is
> there a decent output? If there is -- great!
>
> One of the first few things I had to do when I came to GNU/Linux was
> precisely get to know my gfx card. For that, I googled (just like I did
> now). Here's what came up:
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tell-which-graphics-vga-card-installed/
>
> It's as simple as:
>
> Code:
>
> lspci -v | grep VGA
>
>
>
>
> That should tell you what your card is.
>
> It may happen that your PCI ID isn't recognised (resulting in incorrect or
> absent output). In that case I'd suggest updating the data file (the above
> link mentions it) or opening up your PC.
>
> From what I realized, your attempt at using lspci produced no effect...try
> the above first and hope for the best :)
>
>
>
>

Did you ever say what distro you're using? What about the computer?

Jim
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