[Wine] Re: For what reason the "official" Wine does not suppo
dimesio
wineforum-user at winehq.org
Wed Jul 14 22:45:30 CDT 2010
Marc Chamberlin wrote:
>
> Version 1.1.50_1.2rc7-1.1-i586 of Wine broke my ability to use the USB
> port with a Western Digital Passport disk drive. That prevents me from
> using the PortableApps tools under Wine on Linux. It also caused file
> corruption on my Passport drive and required a significant amount of
> effort for me to recover. So DO NOT use this version with USB disk drives!!
>
> Sure would have been nice if a README or Release Notes had been included
> with my distro's package (openSuSE11.2) giving me a heads up on this USB
> issue, especially since it is apparently a known issue to the developers!
>
> I downgraded Wine back to version 1.1.28-2.3-i586 which does work, but I
> am back to living with some font problems in Thunderbird that I was
> hoping the upgrade would fix.. Guess I will live with that for awhile
> longer...
>
> Marc..
Please run a regression test and file a bug. http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting
I don't know where you got the idea that this was a "known issue." AFAIK, you're the first person to report it.
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